Category:Versatile

Ver"sa*tile, a. Etym: [l. versatilis, fr. versare to turn around, v. Freq. of vertere: cf. F. versatile. See verse.]

1. Capable of being turned round. Harte.

2. Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; Inconstant; as versatile disposition.

3. Turning with ease from one thing to another; readily applied to a New task, or to various subjects; many-sided; as, versatile genius; a Versatile politician. Conspicuous among the youths of high promise. . . was the quick and Versatile [charles] montagu. Macaulay.

4. (nat. Hist.)

Defn: capable of turning; freely movable; as, a versatile anther, Which is fixed at one point to the filament, and hence is very easily Turned around; a versatile toe of a bird. -- ver"sa*tile*ly, adv. -- -- ver"sa*tile*ness, n.