myriad means multifaceted, having innumerable elements. It carries an Arena rating of 1872, earned across 25 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, myriad ranks #183 of 17,113 for Most Elegant Words, #324 of 17,116 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #1,036 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words, #1,478 of 17,111 for Most Sublime Words.
myriad is pronounced /ˈmɪɹi.æd/.
Why “myriad” is a great word
Myriad means innumerable or composed of many varied elements; also, ten thousand, or a countless multitude. From Ancient Greek μυριάς (myrias, "ten thousand"), from μύριος (myrios, "countless"). Unlike "finite," which implies a precise, countable limit, or "homogeneous," which suggests uniformity and sameness, myriad thrums with both indefinite vastness and kaleidoscopic diversity. It is the shifting speckle of starlight on a dark-watered sea, the press of strangers in a city square each carrying a separate secret, the thousand tiny motes dancing in a sunlit beam through a dusty room—each a singular point in an uncountable whole, reminding us that infinity is not only in the vast but in the minute, repeated beyond reckoning.
adj
- Multifaceted, having innumerable elements.e.g.“one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].”
- Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous.e.g.“Earth hosts myriad animals.”
noun
- Ten thousand; 10,000
- Ten thousand; 10,000; Synonym of decamillennium: a period of 10000 years.
- A countless number or multitude (of specified things)e.g.“Earth hosts a myriad of animals.”
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