plentiful

3 definitions found

plentiful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster] -- Plen"ti*ful*ly, adv. --
        Plen"ti*ful*ness, n.
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plentiful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, plentiful, rich]
      3: producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful
         year"; "fruitful soil" [syn: bountiful, plentiful]

plentiful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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