Bountiful
['baʊntɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['baʊntɪfl]
Definition
(adj.) producing in abundance; 'the bountiful earth'; 'a plentiful year'; 'fruitful soil' .
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Definition
(a.) Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
(a.) Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Liberal, munificent, beneficent, generous, princely, bounteous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LIBERAL]
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Examples
- Like the seed mentioned in the parable of the sower, some fell on good ground and grew to produce a bountiful harvest, but many withered by the wayside. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were the works of a Sister of Charity--far more difficult to perform than those of a Lady Bountiful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You are too bountiful! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The stock was bountiful, but still it gave me no idea of the possibility of supplying a moving column in an enemy's country from the country itself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I might have got myself up, morally, as Sir Eugene Bountiful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My dear sir, you really are too bountiful. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But enough of Harriette Wilson as Lady Bountiful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What he did was accomplished with the ease and grace of all-sufficing strength; with the bountiful cheerfulness of high and unbroken energies. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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