Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Abundant to excess.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Extremely or exceedingly abundant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. most excessively abundant
Etymologies
- super- + abundant (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A woman with as much colour would have been accused of painting; in him it gave to some people the idea of superabundant health, to others it suggested a phthisical tendency.”
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
“Commenters often append adjectives, as you did, in your article for the Wall Street Journal, like "superabundant" to statements of the Getty's $4. 5-billion endowment.”
“Needless to say, those 25,824 words will make sense enough to many readers, grateful for any distant message from the once superabundant pen.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance
“She seemed bursting with it, and every quick, spontaneous movement appeared to spring from very excess of red blood and superabundant energy.”
“As well as to weakness and exhaustion, does he appeal to too much strength, to superabundant vitality, to the ennui of idleness.”
“She is generous, dependable, sensible -- yes, and sensitive; and her superabundant vitality, the vitality that makes her walk so gloriously, discounts the maturity of her.”
“And among the commonest reasons why forgers get busy in the first place is to take full advantage of the excitement arising from the “discovery” ofan object of superabundant rarity.”
“It is unfortunate that Arabs obsess about building in Israel rather than aiming for the development of their own superabundant lands.”
The Wall Street Journal: How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze?
“Although the Getty's endowment as of June 30, 2009, was a superabundant $4.54 billion (down from $5.95 billion the previous year), the trust follows the fiscally prudent practice of many nonprofit organizations, limiting its spending to 5% of the average value of its endowment over three years.”
“Information has gone from scarce to superabundant.”
Managing Information: A Special Report (10 Articles +) from The Economist « ResourceShelf
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘superabundant’.
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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super-, sur-
above or beyond; to a great degree; extra large; of a higher kind
superfamily, supercontinent, superstructure, superabundant, supernumerary, superfluous, superfine, surprise, supercilious, supersonic, surrender, supercede and 33 more...
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Vanity Fair
sunshiny, equipage, wherry, affidavit, gimcracks, nabobs, palanquin, toxophilite, psha, superabundant, pomatums, finikin and 128 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 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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