The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multiform \Mul"ti*form\ (m[u^]l"t[i^]*f[^o]rm), a. [L. multiformis; multus much, many + forma shape: cf. F. multiforme.] Having many forms, shapes, or appearances.
A plastic and multiform unit.
--Hare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having more than one shape or appearance. n. An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.
WordNet
adj. occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances; "the multiform universe of nature and man"- John Dewey [ant: uniform]
Usage examples of "multiform".
His mental activity, up to the age of seventy-three, is as prodigious as the activity which he had expended in living a multiform and incalculable life.
Such exploration of the possibilities clearly shows that the Kunderian esthetic, far from being governed by the dual principle of language and the world, stems openly from their multiform and polysemic construction.
Because we have allotted to soul the function of dealing--in thought and in multiform action--with the external, and we hold that observation of self and of the content of self must belong to Intellectual-Principle.
Acting on this idea, I have contrived a certain pictorial exhibition, somewhat in the nature of a puppet-show, by means of which I propose to call up the multiform and many-colored Past before the spectator, and show him the ghosts of his forefathers, amid a succession of historic incidents, with no greater trouble than the turning of a crank.
And in still another panic of fright we have this same tough civilisation saving its honour by condemning an innocent man to multiform death, and hugging and whitewashing the guilty one.
Indiana is a thing complicated and multiform, and, like picking up the rose-leaves and trimming the bushes in Paradise, asking other hands than those of the original mother.
Go where you may in Clerkenwell, on every hand are multiform evidences of toil, intolerable as a nightmare.
Morris, or been more felicitous than he in dealing with the subtle and multiform difficulties that beset its execution.
Nor did it appear to give him any consolation to be aware of the commotion he was causing on the other side of the wall, where a threshing machine of an antiquated sort responded with multiform movement to the monotony of his round-and-round.
Not yet stretched by time, her perceptions are without seriality: they are multiform, instantaneous and random, like the present itself.
Nestled between her spread legs was a heavily customized Panasonic XC 400, the one with the multiform mushroom cushion head.
Thus with his brain full of manifold and multiform thoughts of the past did Cormac mac Art sit and wallow in days gone by, and avoid thereby thinking of the present and future.
O, multi-colored, multiform, Beloved beauty over me, That I shall never, never see Again!
The more we study him, the more are we astonished at his multiform genius.
Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?