Plentiful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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