MULTITUDINOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multitudinous mean? 

• MULTITUDINOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MULTITUDINOUS has 1 sense:

1. too numerous to be counted

  Familiarity information: MULTITUDINOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTITUDINOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Too numerous to be counted

Synonyms:

countless; infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable

Context example:

myriad stars

Similar:

incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)

Derivation:

multitude (a large indefinite number)

multitudinousness (a very large number (especially of people))

 Context examples 

With the swiftness and wide-reaching of multitudinous thought Charles Butler's whole life was telescoped upon his vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One thing was certain: What these multitudinous writers did he could do, and only give him time and he would do what they could not do.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The next moment, in a flashing vision of multitudinous detail, he sighted the whole sea of life's nastiness that he had known and voyaged over and through, and he forgave her for not understanding the story.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A trick picture, was his thought, as he dismissed it, though in the midst of the multitudinous impressions he was receiving he found time to feel a prod of indignation that so much beauty should be sacrificed to make a trick.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)