multifarious

comparative more multifarious · superlative most multifarious

1. Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.

   It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious.

   2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 225c

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   Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]

   1878, Henry James, An International Episode

   Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.

   1943 January and February, “Charles S. Lake”, in Railway Magazine, page 1

   Synonyms: diverse, manifold, various, catholic, dishomogeneous, diverse, diversified, eclectic

2. lawIn which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder, perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.