单词 | multitudinous |
释义 | multitudinous (once / 3131 pages) adj Anything multitudinous is countless, infinite, innumerable, and, myriad: you couldn't count it if you tried. This is a fancy way to describe more than a whole lot of something — so many, in fact, that you could never count them all. There are multitudinous atoms in your body, multitudinous drops in the ocean, and multitudinous grains of sand on the beach. The number of books in the library isn't multitudinous, even though it would take forever to count them all. Save multitudinous for things that are so amazingly numerous that counting is useless. WORD FAMILYmultitudinous: multitudinously, multitudinousness+/multitude: multitudes, multitudinous USAGE EXAMPLESMr. McCartney was encyclopedic, demonstrating his mastery of multitudinous idioms and applying all his charm and skill to hits and non-hits alike. New York Times(Oct 09, 2016) The multitudinous Little Pakistan neighborhood sits 20 blocks to the north, and Brazilians and Britons are easy enough to find. New York Times(Sep 21, 2016) The chorus he heard was of multitudinous voices, a mighty choir of humanity. Salon(Sep 12, 2016) adj too numerous to be counted the multitudinous seas Syn countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable incalculable not capable of being computed or enumerated |
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