Meanings
alternative multi-dimensional
- not comparableHaving multiple dimensions (aspects).
Even for El’s supportive parents, conceiving of gender as a multidimensional sprawl has not been so easy to grasp.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 20191 more example
Rosa's whole life as a revolutionary, as a theoretician, as a multidimensional woman, was so preoccupied with the spontaneity of revolution […]
1996, Raya Dunayevskaya, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution, →ISBN, page 230- not comparablemathematicsHaving more than two dimensions.
- not comparableCrossing through or existing in multiple dimensions (spacial planes).
The Cosmic Woman is an integrated, multidimensional woman who has crossed both the Zodiacal and cosmic planes.
1998, Judith Bennett, Sex Signs, →ISBN, page 336
plural multidimensionals · alternative multi-dimensional
- New AgelifestyleA being that exists in more than one dimension
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
- Proto-Italic*moltos
- Latinmultus
- Latinmultī
- Middle Englishmulti-
- Englishmulti-
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Proto-Indo-European*med-
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
- Proto-Italic*mētis
- Latinmētior
- Latindīmētior
- Latindīmēnsiō
- Englishdimension
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishdimensional
- Englishmultidimensional
From multi- + dimensional.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech vícerozměrný
- vícerozměrnýhaving more than two dimensions
Danish flerdimensional
- flerdimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
Estonian mitmemõõtmeline, mitmedimensiooniline
- mitmemõõtmelinehaving more than two dimensions
- mitmedimensioonilinehaving more than two dimensions
Finnish moniulotteinen
- moniulotteinenhaving more than two dimensions
French multidimensionnel, pluridimensionnel
- multidimensionnelhaving more than two dimensions
- pluridimensionnelhaving more than two dimensions
German multidimensional, mehrdimensional
- multidimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
- mehrdimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
Greek πολυδιάστατος
- πολυδιάστατος (polydiástatos)having more than two dimensions
Hungarian többdimenziós, sokdimenziós
- többdimenzióshaving more than two dimensions
- sokdimenzióshaving more than two dimensions
Latvian daudzdimensiju, daudzdimensionāls
- daudzdimensijuhaving more than two dimensions
- daudzdimensionālshaving more than two dimensions
Māori ahumaha
- ahumahahaving more than two dimensions
Polish wielowymiarowy
- wielowymiarowyhaving more than two dimensions
Portuguese multidimensional, pluridimensional
- multidimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
- pluridimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
Romanian multidimensional
- multidimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
Russian многоме́рный
- многоме́рный (mnogomérnyj)having more than two dimensions
Spanish multidimensional, pluridimensional
- multidimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
- pluridimensionalhaving more than two dimensions
Swedish flerdimensionell
- flerdimensionellhaving more than two dimensions
Ukrainian багатови́мірний
- багатови́мірний (bahatovýmirnyj)having more than two dimensions
Vietnamese đa chiều
- đa chiềuhaving more than two dimensions
Cite this entry
multidimensional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multidimensional
“multidimensional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multidimensional. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “multidimensional,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multidimensional.
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