multiform

Having more than one shape or appearance.

Adjective

  1. Having more than one shape or appearance.
    • 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— […] - 1912, Percy Adolphus Vaile, The Soul...

    Synonyms: polymorphic polymorphous protean

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English form English multiform From multi- + form.

Forms

more multiform most multiform

Synonyms

chameleon chameleonic chameleonlike diverse multiform multiversant pluriform polymorphic polymorphous protean variform

Antonyms

monic monoform monomorphic monomorphous uniform

Hyponyms

omniform shapeshifting

Related

shape-shifter

Derived

multiformly multiformness

Noun

  1. An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.

Forms

multiforms