plentiful
Americanadjective
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ample; abundant
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having or yielding an abundance
a plentiful year
Related Words
Plentiful, ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. Plentiful suggests an over-adequate quantity: a plentiful supply. Ample suggests a more than adequate quality as well: to give ample praise. Abundant implies a greater degree of plenty, and bountiful a still more ample quality as well: an abundant, even a bountiful, harvest.
Other Word Forms
- overplentiful adjective
- overplentifully adverb
- overplentifulness noun
- plentifully adverb
- plentifulness noun
- quasi-plentiful adjective
- quasi-plentifully adverb
- unplentiful adjective
- unplentifully adverb
Etymology
Origin of plentiful
A late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; plenty, -ful
Example Sentences
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“Traders seem confident that supplies will be plentiful and enable utilities to meet demand during the peak season.”
Actual losses aren’t as plentiful this year, with U.S. stocks and bonds both posting gains.
From Barron's
The album has too much happening to function as ambient or environmental music—though loops are plentiful, there’s a consistent sense of development through these constructions, as elements are born, bloom and fade away.
That, of course, measures the number of Americans who think jobs are plentiful versus those that feel jobs are hard to get.
From Barron's
Gulf Coast refiners, meanwhile, were built to refine Venezuela’s heavy oil because it was “cheap and plentiful — and, of course, yields a lot of diesel and fuels for heavy manufacturing,” he said.
From MarketWatch
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