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versatile adjective [ ˈvəːsətʌɪl ]

• able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.
• "a versatile sewing machine"
Similar: adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, multiskilled, many-sided, resourceful, protean, adjustable, variable, convertible, alterable, modifiable, multipurpose, all-purpose, handy, polytropic, flexile,
Opposite: inflexible, limited,
• changeable; inconstant.
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘inconstant, fluctuating’): from French, or from Latin versatilis, from versat- ‘turned about, revolved’, from the verb versare, frequentative of vertere ‘to turn’.


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