Ample
['æmp(ə)l] or ['æmpl]
Definition
(adj.) affording an abundant supply; 'had ample food for the party'; 'copious provisions'; 'food is plentiful'; 'a plenteous grape harvest'; 'a rich supply' .
(adj.) more than enough in size or scope or capacity; 'had ample food for the party'; 'an ample supply' .
(adj.) fairly large; 'a sizable fortune'; 'an ample waistline'; 'of ample proportions' .
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Definition
(a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
(a.) Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
(a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.
Checked by Douglas
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Large, great, capacious, wide, extended, extensive, spacious, broad, roomy.[2]. Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, abounding, overflowing, copious, full, liberal, rich, exuberant, luxurious, lavish, bountiful, handsome.[3]. Diffusive, unrestricted, not contracted.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Large, bountiful, liberal, copious, spacious, roomy, diffusive, full, complete,sufficient, plentiful, abundant,
ANT:Narrow, niggardly, insufficient, stingy, scant, mean, stint, bare
Edited by Alison
Definition
adj. spacious: large enough: abundant: liberal: copious or of great length.—ns. Am′pleness; Ampliā′tion enlarging an enlargement.—adj. Ampliā′tive (rare).—adv. Am′ply.
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Examples
- Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There are more ample resources for its achievement now than ever there have been before. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Five of these great thoroughfares radiate from one ample centre--a centre which is exceedingly well adapted to the accommodation of heavy artillery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He will have an ample force when the reinforcements ordered reach Nashville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As you do us such ample justice now, said Emma, laughing, I will venture to ask, whether you did not come a little doubtfully at first? Jane Austen. Emma.
- It will cost me several cups of tea, some toast and cake, and an ample measure of remonstrances, expostulations, and persuasions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet amongst them was more than one gentleman of unexceptionable character as well as ample wealth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sitting-room of Legree's establishment was a large, long room, with a wide, ample fireplace. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The brief instant in which I had seen and recognized Carthoris before the chain fell must have been ample to check the force of the blow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He laid his ample hand softly on hers, saying-- Dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not every city is so well peopled as this, or has so ample an area within its walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He then folded the quittance, and put it under his cap, adding,--Peril of thy beard, Jew, see that this be full and ample! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Crops must be selected or developed that will fit the environment, and there is ample field for investigation in the improvement and development of crops suitable to dry lands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was habited in a dark brown flowing robe, which was confined round the waist by a leathern belt, and fell in ample folds to the ground. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Pierre