[
UK
/mˈɪɹɪˌæd/
]
[ US /ˈmɪɹiəd/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪɹiəd/ ]
NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand
-
a large indefinite number
he faced a myriad of details
ADJECTIVE
-
too numerous to be counted
myriad stars
the multitudinous seas
countless hours
innumerable difficulties
an infinite number of reasons
How To Use myriad In A Sentence
- Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
- Not that I read any more or make music or write - I just vegetate in front of the myriad digital channels we now have.
- It lies less than 100 miles from Melbourne and is well set up for visitors to enjoy myriad up close experiences with the local fauna. Times, Sunday Times
- Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions.
- Myriad interrelated factors will influence which of them come down as snow. Times, Sunday Times
- The pulse of war that beat from the West suggested the companionship of battling thousands; here was naught but silence, and himself, and possible death-dealing bullets from a myriad ambushes. War
- Fast-flowing rivers create spectacular waterfalls, gorges and a myriad of caves.
- Little tiny lace panties sold rolled up like ladyfingers, and in a myriad of gem tones, sit in a case on the front counter.
- As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats.