ample
4 definitions found
ample - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ample \Am"ple\, a. [F. ample, L. amplus, prob. for ambiplus full
on both sides, the last syllable akin to L. plenus full. See
Full, and cf. Double.]
Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious;
roomy; widely extended.
[1913 Webster]
All the people in that ample house
Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser.
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2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample
fortune; ample justice.
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3. Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive;
as, an ample narrative. --Johnson.
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Syn: Full; spacious; extensive; wide; capacious; abundant;
plentiful; plenteous; copious; bountiful; rich; liberal;
munificent.
Usage: Ample, Copious, Abundant, Plenteous. These
words agree in representing a thing as large, but
under different relations, according to the image
which is used. Ample implies largeness, producing a
sufficiency or fullness of supply for every want; as,
ample stores or resources, ample provision. Copious
carries with it the idea of flow, or of collection at
a single point; as, a copious supply of materials.
"Copious matter of my song." --Milton. Abundant and
plenteous refer to largeness of quantity; as, abundant
stores; plenteous harvests.
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ample - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
ample
adj 1: more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample
food for the party"; "an ample supply" [ant: meager,
meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy]
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, plentiful, rich]
3: fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of
ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizable, sizeable]
ample - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
AMPLE
<language, music> A FORTH-like language for programming the
500/5000 series of add-on music synthesisers for the BBC Microcomputer
. AMPLE was produced by Hybrid Technologies,
Cambridge, England in the mid 1980s. Many AMPLE programs were
published in Acorn User magazine.
(1995-11-01)
ample - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "ample":
abounding, abundant, adequate, affluent, all-sufficing, amplify,
amplitudinous, aplenty, augment, barely sufficient, bottomless,
bounteous, bountiful, broad, capacious, commensurate, commodious,
competent, complete, comprehensive, copious, corresponding,
countless, decent, deep, detailed, develop, diffuse, dilate,
distend, distended, due, effuse, elaborate, enlarge, enough,
epidemic, equal to, exhaustless, expanded, expansive, extend,
extended, extending, extensive, extravagant, exuberant,
far-reaching, fat, fertile, fit, flush, fruitful, full, galore,
generous, good, good enough, great, handsome, in plenty,
in quantity, increase, inexhaustible, infinite, inflate, inflated,
large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximal, minimal, minimum,
much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous,
plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty good enough, prevailing,
prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive,
proportionable, proportionate, rampant, replete, rich, rife,
riotous, roomy, running over, satisfactory, satisfying, spacious,
spreading, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing,
suitable, superabundant, swell, swollen, teeming, thorough, unfold,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, up to, vast, voluminous, wealthy,
well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale,
wide, wide-ranging, widespread
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