Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Existing in great quantity or ample supply.
- adj. Providing or producing an abundance: a plentiful harvest.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Existing in large number or ample amount.
- adj. Yielding abundance; fruitful.
- adj. obsolete lavish; profuse; prodigal
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample.
- adj. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
- adj. obsolete Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. existing in great number or quantity
- adj. affording an abundant supply
- adj. producing in abundance
Etymologies
- From plenty + -ful. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“Final game programs were in plentiful supply and selling briskly.”
“Although it was a much less popular war, photos of American dead were plentiful from the Korean War.”
“Let's just say they are in plentiful supply and some of them have webbed duck's feet.”
“Of course, there's always the sun which normally is in plentiful supply.”
“Reeks remain plentiful so those will be shipped as soon as possible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plentiful’.
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Linda(G4)
Accurate, address, afford, alert, analyze, ancestor, annual, apparent, arena, arrest, ascend, assist and 126 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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describe me
charming, afectionate, addictive, selfless, patience, drastic, fond, light-heeled, fragrant, delicate, care-free, natural and 95 more...
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT PT #5 (new bk)
inane, scrutinze, attended, testify to, jeopardize, sustain, plentiful, ornate, multifarious, catalogue, anachronistic, extrapolate and 89 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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jossette's Words
neuron, isotope, automaton, andalite, cryptozoology, armadillo, phosphorescent, avocado, eviscerate, norwegian, annihilate, toboggan and 49 more...
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drdonaldbrief's Words
panties, slacks, brief, conundrum, gaggle, quagmire, rubble, conflagration, etymology, ogre, discombobulate, blumpkin and 80 more...
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SAT Words That Mean 'Abundant or Rich'
A list of SAT words that mean 'abundant or rich.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words by meaning can help you to memorize more effectively.
affluent, bounteous, copious, luxuriant, multifarious, multitudinous, myriad, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, plethoric and 5 more...
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Life
heart, full, temporal, beating, thriving, asking, forgiving, seeking, striving, answers, questions, real and 4 more...
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