Myriad – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘myriad’.

The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence and the word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.

No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form and No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.  

It means:
1. Innumerable
2. A countless or extremely great number of people or things.
3. (chiefly in classical history) A unit of ten thousand.
4. Multitude

1. The storm in the night had swelled the myriad creeks and extended all morasses.
2. It has taken the brute a myriad of years for his gaze to reach beyond them.
3. In the capture of a town, the loss of myriad men was thought nothing.
4. It swept toward the dome and dissociated into myriad specks which were aircraft
5. I saw a myriad of flashing lights, heard a tremendous crash, and—that was all.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
countless, endless, infinite, multiple, gobs, variable,heaping, immeasurable, incalculable, multitudinous, no end of, numberless, thousand-and-one, uncounted, untold, multitude, a large/great number/quantity, a lot, scores, quantities, mass, throng, host, droves, horde, army, legion, sea, swarm, lots, loads, masses, stacks, tons, oodles, hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, zillions, shedload, slew, gazillions, bazillions, swag, innumerable, unlimited, limitless, unnumbered, numerous, manifold, multiple, legion, several, many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious, innumerous, unnumberable etc.

Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
bounded, calculable, countable, limited, measurable