Plentiful
['plentɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['plɛntɪfəl]
Definition
(adj.) existing in great number or quantity; 'rhinoceroses were once plentiful here' .
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Definition
(a.) Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.
(a.) Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
(a.) Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Abundant, ample, copious, full, plenteous, productive, fruitful, exuberant, luxuriant, profuse, PLENTY, in profusion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABUNDANT]
Editor: Val
Examples
- She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And I ne'er asked for it, because good words is scarce, and bad words is plentiful. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Old people remember when flint-locks were plentiful everywhere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Food would be more plentiful, minds would be more at peace, bodies would be more healthy, and the world happier. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was essential to have a multitude of plates of bread and butter, varied in sorts and plentiful in quantity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I reckon, my dinner hour stretches all o'er the day; yo're pretty sure of finding me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The trade of the merchant-exporter of corn for foreign consumption, certainly does not contribute directly to the plentiful supply of the home market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In order that the gases may burn and the solid particle glow, a plentiful supply of oxygen is necessary. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we shall find the worth and plentiful increase of his actions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Shillings have not been so plentiful with me as they once were, he remarked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were no duns in Paris as yet: there were parties every day at Very's or Beauvilliers'; play was plentiful and his luck good. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a gigantic round of cold beef on the table, and Mr. Pickwick was supplied with a plentiful portion of it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To prevent the market from being overstocked, too, they have sometimes, in plentiful years, we are told by Dr Douglas {Douglas's Summary, vol. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Books were far more plentiful than they had been before the time of the C?sars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Europe and Asia labor was plentiful, and the reaper had to win its way more slowly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A plentiful subsistence, therefore, it has been concluded, relaxes, and a scanty one quickens their industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Val