myriad

myriad
n
1. thousands, a thousand and one, scores, numbers, a number, Inf. scillions, Inf. zillions, Inf. oodles, Inf. slew; lots, a lot, passel, Inf. raft, Sl. scads, Sl. a scad, piles, a pile, Inf. heaps, Inf. heap, lashings; bags of, Inf. gobs of, barrels, tons, a bunch, a bushel and a peck; shipload, carload; multiplicity, multitudinousness, plenty, abundance, profusion, galaxy; endless stream, river, torrent, flood, deluge, ocean, sea, world.
2. host, mass, crowd, throng, crush, horde; drove, bevy, herd, pack, flock, swarm, gaggle, school, shoal; army, legion, tribe, band, team, troop, squad, company, group, party, body; assemblage, congregation, aggregation, array, accumulation, assortment; bunch, gang, crew, Inf. caboodle; concentration, concourse, confluence, conflux, convergence.
adj
3. innumerable, numerous, untold, multiple, multitudinous, multiplied, multifold, Inf. umpteen, multifarious, manifold, various; sundry, divers, several, many; countless, numerous as the stars in the Milky Way, numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, illimitable, limitless, unlimited, boundless, unbounded; immeasurable, unfathomable, incalculable, endless, infinite, without measure, interminable.
4. versatile, (of an actor) protean, proteiform; kaleidoscopic, complex, varied, changing, multifaceted.

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