| 单词 | multiform |
| 释义 | multiform (once / 14004 pages) adj If you describe something as multiform, it can exist in many forms. By its nature, a transformer toy that can double as a car and as a robot can be called multiform. Many illnesses are multiform, like cancer, because they come in all different types with all sorts of symptoms and characteristics. But good things can be multiform as well; think of the multiform Hindu deity Vishnu with ten different avatars that range from a fish to a boar to a tortoise. WORD FAMILYform: biform, deform, formation, formative, formed, forming, formless, forms, multiform, preform, reform+/deform: deformation, deformed, deforming, deforms/deformation: deformational, deformations/deformed: deformedly, deformity/deformity: deformities/formation: formations, re-formation/formative: formatively, formatives/formed: ill-formed, re-formed, unformed/formless: formlessly/preform: preformation, preformed, preforms/preformation: preformations/reform: reformable, reformation, reformative, reformatory, reformed, reformer, reforming, reformism, reforms/reformable: unreformable/reformation: counterreformation, reformations, self-reformation/reformatory: reformatories/reformed: reformedly, unreformed/reformer: reformers/reformism: reformist/reformist: reformists/unformed: unformedly USAGE EXAMPLESThe idea of anti-Semitism is uniquely durable and remarkably multiform. Washington Post(Oct 30, 2015) He was a Shakespeare scholar who once hollered in print, “Oh my god! Shakespeare. That multiform & encyclopedic bastard.” New York Times(Oct 14, 2014) Then of course there is the great artistic offspring that is Shelley’s “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus,” and the many multiform descendants it spawned. New York Times(Jan 06, 2013) adj occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances "the multiform universe of nature and man"- John Dewey Syn|Ant polymorphic, polymorphous having or occurring in several distinct forms uniform, unvarying always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences singlehaving uniform application |
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