Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Amounting to a large number; many.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of a great number of individuals: as, a numerous army.
- A great many; not a few; forming a great number: as, numerous objects attract the attention; attacked by numerous enemies.
- Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; melodious; musical.
- In descriptive bot., indefinite in number, usually any number above twenty, as stamens in a flower.
Wiktionary
- adj. Indefinitely large numerically, many
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many.
- adj. obsolete Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. amounting to a large indefinite number
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin numerōsus, from numerus, number; see number. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“While covering his presidency, I heard him use the word numerous times, and it was often attributed to him by his friends and aides as well.”
“Maccarinelli became WBO champion in 2006, successfully defending his title numerous times.”
“McCain admits he has used the term numerous times.”
“Senior congressional Republicans and Democrats said Wednesday they would join forces with the president to fix what they call numerous flaws in the law.”
The Washington Post: Obama seeks to make No Child Left Behind more flexible
“In a decision dated Friday, another judge, Nathaniel Gorton, ruled against allowing an expert's study, citing what he called numerous flaws in its methodology.”
“So NORAD now taking the decision, we are told, to put fighter aircraft over what they called numerous U.S. cities.”
“Northcott said he looks forward to straightening out what he called numerous misunderstandings.”
“The U.N. Committee Against Torture expressed alarm Friday at what it described as "numerous, consistent and substantiated reports" of human rights violations in Syria, including the killing of peaceful demonstrators, the abuse of detainees, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions and disappearances.”
“California-based Northcoast Environmental Center Klamath coordinator Jay Wright says his group could no longer negotiate in good faith on the hydro deal, because of what he called numerous "preconditions" and lengthy time frame.”
“On Tuesday, Real appealed the judge's decision, pointing out what it called numerous flaws in the court's reasoning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘numerous’.
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unknown to numerous
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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lavendargrrl's Words
surfeit, radiant, sussuration, sustenance, authenticity, aching, solitude, solicitous, limerance, compersion, philanthropy, mystery and 108 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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-merous
having a specified number of (biological) parts
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old faves
ones I already liked
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TT2 Lesson 13
magnificent, island, remote, major, land mass, archipeligo, consist, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabited, southernmost, Oahu and 82 more...
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Episode 16
6th Grade Vocabulary, lesson 16
dramatic, extraordinary, feat, inaccurate, irregular, leisure, marvel, numerous, satisfy, vicinity
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