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Definition of "omnifarious" [om•ni•fa•ri•ous]

  • Of all kinds: omnifarious knowledge. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "omnifarious" in a sentence
  • "He -- conformably with his rôle of Sir Oracle, omniscient and omnifarious -- must have his "cartoons" too; and so on p. 22 of the second volume for the same year (No. 105 of the journal) he appeared with No. 1 of his series."
  • "The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do."
  • "Through a glass partition one saw the shining kitchen with its large modern range, its rows and rows of the most expensive utensils -- all donations by the omnifarious army of Mlle. Thompson's devotees."
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