Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity: synonym: spacious.
- adjective Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose: synonym: plentiful.
- adjective Plump or bulky.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Large in dimensions; of great size, extent, capacity, or bulk; wide; spacious; extended.
- Large in kind or degree; having full scope or extent; copious; unrestricted; unrestrained: as, an ample narrative; to give ample praise, or do ample justice.
- Fully sufficient for any purpose, or for the purpose specified; abundant; liberal; plentiful: as, ample provision for the table.
- Synonyms Ample, Copious, Plenteous, spacious, roomy, extensive, extended, wide, capacious, abundant, sufficient, full, enough, unrestricted, plenary, unstinted. (See lists under abundant and large.) Ample, in its more common uses, has reference to the sufficiency of the supply for every need; copious carries with it the idea of the unfailingness of the source; while plenteous usually indicates largeness of quantity in actual possession: as, ample stores or resources; a copious supply of materials; a plenteous harvest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
- adjective Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious
- adjective Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Large ; great insize ,extent ,capacity , orbulk ;spacious ;roomy ; widelyextended . - adjective Fully
sufficient ;abundant ;liberal ;copious ; as, an ample fortune; ample justice. - adjective Not
contracted orbrief ; notconcise ;extended ;diffusive ; as, an ample narrative.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fairly large
- adjective more than enough in size or scope or capacity
- adjective affording an abundant supply
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Cleavage is often preceded by the term "ample" and one customarily "sports" it.
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Cleavage is often preceded by the term "ample" and one customarily "sports" it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lee Woodruff 2011
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Despite what he describes as his ample "rhythm and sex appeal," boxing champion Floyd Mayweather only managed to finish ninth in season five.
Athletes Dance Better Than You Hannah Karp 2010
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One strategist I talked to said that he should use what he calls his ample capital he has left to address this issue -- John.
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Keegan tells an old story in ample, uncomplicated prose and the scale of the book is well judged, sufficient to allow for richness of detail and depth of analysis without overhwhelming the reader.
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Or you could look into hydrogen because even though natural gas is in ample amounts … it will run out.
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Keegan tells an old story in ample, uncomplicated prose and the scale of the book is well judged, sufficient to allow for richness of detail and depth of analysis without overhwhelming the reader.
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Keegan tells an old story in ample, uncomplicated prose and the scale of the book is well judged, sufficient to allow for richness of detail and depth of analysis without overhwhelming the reader.
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Gold bullion is the one investment and long-term store of value which cannot be adversely impacted by corrupt corporate management or incompetent politicians -- each of which are in ample supply on a global basis.
RBC Fiat Slap Down Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2007
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Gold bullion is the one investment and long-term store of value which cannot be adversely impacted by corrupt corporate management or incompetent politicians -- each of which are in ample supply on a global basis.
Archive 2007-01-21 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2007
munjal.upadhyay commented on the word ample
Cleavage is often preceded by the term "ample" and one customarily "sports" it.
January 21, 2014