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multiform

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.

DEFINITIONS OF: multiform

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adj occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances

“"the multiform universe of nature and man"- John Dewey”
Synonyms
polymorphic, polymorphous
having or occurring in several distinct forms
Antonyms:
uniform, unvarying
always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
single
having uniform application
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