multitudinous

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  1. adjective Very numerous; existing in great numbers.
  2. adjective Consisting of many parts.
  3. adjective Populous; crowded.

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  • The hills were sharp, multitudinous, and briars, thorny bushes and low brush made a mat which would vie with a tropical jungle The most simple route was to head south to the road, then follow that westward to the institution. —  022 - The Annihilist
  • The cheerleaders for such action are loud and multitudinous, and mostly come from the rich world, unaffected by malaria. —  The Daily Star > News Feed
  • Chop Shop not to sentimentalize the travails of one of NYC's multitudinous, ignored underclass, but to discover, as —  GreenCine Daily
  • Let me again quote the same author It is these excessive, multitudinous, and often long protracted religious occasions, together with the spirit that is in them, which have been for some years breaking up and breaking down the clergy of this land? —  Diary in America, Series One
  • Then he found out more and more how multitudinous are the demands made upon an officer. —  The Black Bar
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin multitūdō, multitūdin-, multitude; see multitude.

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  1. from Latin as if *multitudinosus, from multitudo (-din-), a multitude: see multitude.
 

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/məltɪˈtjudɪnəs/
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