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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective plentiful has 3 senses
- plentiful(s = adj.all) Array - existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here" Derived form noun plentifulness1
- plentiful(s = adj.all) ample, copious, plenteous, rich - affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" Derived form noun plentifulness1
- plentiful(s = adj.all) bountiful - producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil"
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plentiful, a.
- Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. [1913 Webster]
- Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. [1913 Webster]"If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year." [1913 Webster]
- Lavish; profuse; prodigal. [1913 Webster]"He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
plentiful, adj. abundant, copious.
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plentifully adv. plentifulness n.
THESAURUS
plentiful
abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, bursting, bursting out, copious, countless, creative, diffuse, effuse, enough, epidemic, excessive, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fulsome, galore, generous, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenty, plethoric, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, pullulating, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, sufficient, superabundant, swarming, swimming, teeming, thriving, uberous, unstinted, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesaleROGET THESAURUS
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Sufficiency
VB be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.
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