Plentiful \Plen"ti*ful\, a.
1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a
plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.
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2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
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If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more
plentiful year. --Bacon.
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3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal. [Obs.]
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He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be
preserved from --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plentiful
adj 1: existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were
once plentiful here"
2: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the
party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a
plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: ample, copious,
plenteous, rich]
3: producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful
year"; "fruitful soil" [syn: bountiful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wholesale
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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