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English
Etymology
From multi- + form.
Pronunciation
Adjective
multiform (comparative more multiform, superlative most multiform)
- Having more than one shape or appearance.
- Synonyms: polymorphic, polymorphous, protean; see also Thesaurus:multiform
- Hyponym: pleomorphic
1912, Percy Adolphus Vaile, The Soul of Golf:And yet such is the constitution of the human golfing soul that it not only fails to achieve it, but invents for itself multiform and manifold ifs and ans for not achieving it—
Translations
Noun
multiform (plural multiforms)
- An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French multiforme.
Adjective
multiform m or n (feminine singular multiformă, masculine plural multiformi, feminine and neuter plural multiforme)
- variform
Declension