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Versatile

adjective

Having great diversity or variety. Synonym: various. "His vast and versatile erudition"

Changeable or inconstant.

Competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another.

Able to move freely in all directions. "An insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally" , "A versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind"

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"Versatile" Quotes from Famous Books

... source thou bring'st All good deeds and their opposite." He then: "To what I now disclose be thy clear ken Directed, and thou plainly shalt behold How much those blind have err'd, who make themselves The guides of men. The soul, created apt To love, moves versatile which way soe'er Aught pleasing prompts her, soon as she is wak'd By pleasure into act. Of substance true Your apprehension forms its counterfeit, And in you the ideal shape presenting Attracts the soul's regard. If she, thus drawn, incline toward it, love is that inclining, And ...

— The Divine Comedy • Dante

... in alignment behind him; he caught the angry glare of two brown eyes from a bench, and realized that Eileen's versatile professor was not yet pacified. At Professor Hodgson's side, with her back toward Peter, was a young woman attired in Quaker costume. Her head was not intimately close to that of the young professor; but it ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... other young men, and now had the opportunity. The result flattered him in spite of himself. To others she was courteous, affable and sublimely indifferent. When he approached it seemed almost as if a film passed from her eyes, that she awakened into a fuller life and became an enchantress in her versatile powers. He responded with as fine a courtesy as her own, although quite different, but there was a cool, steady self-restraint in eyes and manner which piqued and ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

... came down looking so like a chimney-sweep that Constance, whose versatile moods changed with the rapidity of lightning, flung herself on the bed in fits of laughter. The interrupted preparations were quickly resumed and completed; and when all was ready, and the boatman waiting at the Castle pier, Le Despenser went into the hall to bid farewell to his mother. ...

— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt

... make out their faces?" I asked, having a good time all to myself; for here was my chance to return an obligation in the matter of courtships which, if not cancelled, would furnish the versatile Tommy with an ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

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