Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occurring in or having many forms or shapes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having many forms; highly diversiform; polymorphic.
  • noun That which is multiform; that which gives a multiplied representation or many repetitions of anything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having many forms, shapes, or appearances.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having more than one shape or appearance.
  • noun An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances

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Examples

  • Himself a Muay Thai fighter, Tony Jaa (or his character) joins in multiform bootleg fighting bouts.

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  • She was famous as a Daughter of Liberty, as well as women in multiform states, together with Maryland, New Jersey, as well as Virginia, followed her e.g. by starting similar fundraising organizations.

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  • She was famous as a Daughter of Liberty, as well as women in multiform states, together with Maryland, New Jersey, as well as Virginia, followed her e.g. by starting similar fundraising organizations.

    ESTHER REED, BROOKE HENSON, BROOK HENSON, ESTHER REED CAPTURED ... admin 2009

  • The gas crisis has lifted public doubts about the countrys monopolistic gas marketplace as well as the genius of PetroChina as well as Sinopec, the countrys categorical gas suppliers, which released emergency gas in multiform provinces as well as regions together with Chongqing municipality as well as Zhejiang range due to the remarkable increased expenditure as well as limited storage.

    DevDream Webmaster and Developer Articles Blog Archive ... admin 2009

  • The gas crisis has lifted public doubts about the countrys monopolistic gas marketplace as well as the genius of PetroChina as well as Sinopec, the countrys categorical gas suppliers, which released emergency gas in multiform provinces as well as regions together with Chongqing municipality as well as Zhejiang range due to the remarkable increased expenditure as well as limited storage.

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  • Himself a Muay Thai fighter, Tony Jaa (or his character) joins in multiform bootleg fighting bouts.

    Jaylins Blog Blog Archive Watch Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior ... admin 2009

  • The most aggressive called a glioblastoma, multiform, which is highly aggressive and carries a very poor prognosis.

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2008 2008

  • I remember the glint of numerous rings, the multiform badges of honor set jangling, it was the last thing I recall...

    Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011

  • Few writers have been able to convey the multiform varieties of daily tedium in language so rich and layered that the experience seems almost delightful.

    A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011

  • (Among them: James Corr, a Lehman Brothers casualty turned stay-at-home dad who has invented a mountable wall ledge to hang marathon medals; massage therapist Natalia Rodriguez, creator of a multiform pillow; and military veteran turned film extra Bruce Taylor, the man behind the Mighty Mouth Suck It Up, a dust-free sander.)

    Group Is Mother of Inventions Jo Piazza 2010

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