Word of the Day for Thursday, April 28, 2011
polymorphous \pol-ee-MAWR-fuhs\, adjective:
Having, assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages, or the like.
The B.O. has had a polymorphous life, from an angry young pot smoking cocaine addict to an angry Marxist-socialist college student to an angry community organizer of angry union thugs to a jovial president cracking jokes on The View!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
It's a time machine, a polymorphous funk jazz rollercoaster transporting you from Art Blakey's hard bop and Weather Report's jazz rock to more speculative free form fusions.-- Miles Keylock , "The Disconnection is the Connection," Mail & Guardian Online
It had surprised me, at first, that a city so polymorphous as Bombay, with its unceasing variety of peoples, languages, and pursuits, tended to such narrow concentrations.-- Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram
Polymorphous combines the Greek roots Poly-, "many," and -morphous, "shape."
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