Proliferate vs Myriad - What's the difference?
proliferate | myriad |
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
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A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
(modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements
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(modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous
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As a verb proliferate
is to increase in number or spread rapidly.As a noun myriad is
.As an adjective myriad is
(modifying a singular noun) multifaceted, having innumerable elements.proliferate
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Verb
(proliferat)- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
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(wikipedia myriad)Noun
(en noun)- Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
Usage notes
Used as an adjective (see below), 'myriad' requires neither an article before it nor a preposition after. Because of this, some consider the usage described in sense 2 above, where 'myriad' acts as part of a nominal (or noun) group (that is, "a myriad of animals"), to be tautological.Adjective
(-)- one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
- "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad ."
- Earth hosts myriad animals.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
