Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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adj
Existing in multitudes or great numbers; very numerous; innumerable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: myriad, countless, innumerable, numberless, uncountable, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold
Antonyms: few, sparse, scarce
adj
Comprising a large number of features or parts; manifold, multiple, myriad; also, having a large number of forms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many, manyfold, morefold, multiple, multiplicate, multiplied, ninety-eleven, numbersome, numerous, seventy-eleven, several, sixty-eleven, thirty-eleven, twenty-eleven, umpteen, umpty-ump, uncountable
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Comprising a large number of features or parts; manifold, multiple, myriad; also, having a large number of forms.
Of a sound: made by many people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many, manyfold, morefold, multiple, multiplicate, multiplied, ninety-eleven, numbersome, numerous, seventy-eleven, several, sixty-eleven, thirty-eleven, twenty-eleven, umpteen, umpty-ump, uncountable
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a body of water, the sea, etc.: huge, vast; also, having innumerable ripples.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, poetic
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Followed by with: crowded with many people or things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, poetic
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adj
Of or relating to the multitude (“common people; masses”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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adj
Very fruitful or productive; prolific.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
too numerous to be counted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin multitūdin- (the oblique stem of multitūdō (“great number (of people), multitude”)) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Multitūdō is derived from multus (“many; much”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late; to worry”)) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, multitude + -in- (interfix used before Latinate suffixes appended to nouns ending with -itude or -tude) + -ous.
Across languages
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