Multitudinous vs Divers - What's the difference?
multitudinous | divers | Related terms |
Existing in great numbers; innumerable.
crowded with many people
, in the sense of various or assorted.
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Multitudinous is a related term of divers.
As adjectives the difference between multitudinous and divers
is that multitudinous is existing in great numbers; innumerable while divers is various.As a noun divers is
monster.multitudinous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "...the multitudinous seas incarnadine..." Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* myriaddivers
English
Etymology 1
See (diver)Noun
(head)Etymology 2
See (diverse)Adjective
(en adjective)- And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.
