Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing in great quantity or ample supply.
- adjective Providing or producing an abundance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing in great plenty; copious; abundant; ample.
- Yielding abundance; affording ample supply; fruitful.
- Lavish.
- = Syn.1 and Profuse, luxuriant. Plentiful is essentially the same as
plenteous . See comparison under ample.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample
- adjective Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
- adjective obsolete Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Existing in large number or
ample amount . - adjective Yielding
abundance ;fruitful . - adjective obsolete
lavish ;profuse ;prodigal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing in great number or quantity
- adjective affording an abundant supply
- adjective producing in abundance
Etymologies
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Examples
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"[D] oom and desperation are in plentiful supply from page one, and as the novel fades to black, the reader's left with a roster of sadder-but-wiser Americans to contemplate."
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III: Book summary 2010
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Labor is in plentiful supply, especially in the construction industries, and employing it will reduce the burden on the benefits system without placing upward pressure on wages.
Don't Expect a Breakthrough on Austerity at G-20 Summit Irwin Stelzer 2010
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November 17th, 2009 at 7: 54 pm dp: Our daily lives are lived by faith that someone else has performed the necessary experiments to insure our cities are safe, our food in plentiful, and our medicine is reliable.
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Our daily lives are lived by faith that someone else has performed the necessary experiments to insure our cities are safe, our food in plentiful, and our medicine is reliable.
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But while recruitment has risen and MBA graduates are in plentiful supply, half of the industry is struggling to find quality candidates with science, technology, engineering and maths skills.
Graduate jobs storm back Ian Wylie 2010
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Final game programs were in plentiful supply and selling briskly.
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Although it was a much less popular war, photos of American dead were plentiful from the Korean War.
Dave Lindorff: Censorship American-Style: Hide the US Dead 2009
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Let's just say they are in plentiful supply and some of them have webbed duck's feet.
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Although it was a much less popular war, photos of American dead were plentiful from the Korean War.
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Of course, there's always the sun which normally is in plentiful supply.
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