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plen·ti·ful

 (plĕn′tĭ-fəl)
adj.
1. Existing in great quantity or ample supply.
2. Providing or producing an abundance: settlers moving to a more plentiful region.

plen′ti·ful·ly adv.
plen′ti·ful·ness n.
Synonyms: plentiful, abundant, ample, copious, plenteous
These adjectives mean being fully as much as one needs or desires: a plentiful supply; the artist's abundant talent; ample space; copious provisions; a plenteous crop of wheat.
Antonym: scant
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plentiful

(ˈplɛntɪfʊl)
adj
1. ample; abundant
2. having or yielding an abundance: a plentiful year.
ˈplentifully adv
ˈplentifulness n
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plen•ti•ful

(ˈplɛn tɪ fəl)

adj.
existing or yielding in abundance.
[1425–75]
plen′ti•ful•ly, adv.
plen′ti•ful•ness, n.
syn: plentiful, ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. plentiful suggests a large or full quantity: a plentiful supply of fuel. ample suggests a quantity that is sufficient for a particular need or purpose: an auditorium with ample seating for students. abundant and bountiful both imply a greater degree of plenty: an abundant rainfall; a bountiful harvest.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.plentiful - existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here"
abundant - present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
2.plentiful - affording an abundant supplyplentiful - affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply"
abundant - present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
3.plentiful - producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil"
fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
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plentiful

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plentiful

adjective
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Translations
وافِر، بِكَمِّيّات كَبيرَه
bohatýhojný
rigelig
ríkulegur
abudantefartogrande
obilen

plentiful

[ˈplentɪfʊl] ADJ [wildlife, game, hair] → abundante
a plentiful supply ofun suministro abundante de ...
eggs are now plentiful or in plentiful supplyahora hay abundancia de huevos, ahora abundan los huevos
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plentiful

[ˈplɛntifʊl] adjabondant(e)
a plentiful supply of sth → d'abondantes réserves de qch
to be plentiful → abonder
Fish are plentiful in the lake → Les poissons abondent dans le lac
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plentiful

adjreichlich; commodities, gold, minerals etcreichlich or im Überfluss vorhanden; hairvoll; to be in plentiful supplyreichlich or im Überfluss vorhanden sein
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plentiful

[ˈplɛntɪfʊl] adjabbondante
to be in plentiful supply → abbondare, esserci in gran quantità
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plenty

(ˈplenti) pronoun
1. a sufficient amount; enough. I don't need any more books – I've got plenty; We've got plenty of time to get there.
2. a large amount. He's got plenty of money.
adjective
That's plenty, thank you!
ˈplenteous (-tiəs) adjective
plentiful.
ˈplentiful adjective
existing in large amounts. a plentiful supply.
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References in classic literature ?
A man had need, if he be plentiful in some kind of expense, to be as saving again in some other.
A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.
In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, gushing out of a rock covered with firs, and forming a constant cascade of about thirty feet, not carried down a regular flight of steps, but tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel, that with many lesser falls winded along, till it fell into a lake at the foot of the hill, about a quarter of a mile below the house on the south side, and which was seen from every room in the front.
It came, as I later discovered, not from an animal, as there is only one mammal on Mars and that one very rare indeed, but from a large plant which grows practically without water, but seems to distill its plentiful supply of milk from the products of the soil, the moisture of the air, and the rays of the sun.
Volcanoes, so plentiful in the first days of the world, are being extinguished by degrees; the internal heat is weakened, the temperature of the lower strata of the globe is lowered by a perceptible quantity every century to the detriment of our globe, for its heat is its life."
A Plentiful Hunting Camp.-Shoshonie Hunters - Hoback's River - Mad River- Encampment Near the Pilot Knobs.- A Consultation.
There was only one spoon, sugar was more plentiful than anything else, but it took too long to dissolve, so it was decided that Mary Hendrikhovna should stir the sugar for everyone in turn.
The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
Their provisions were abundant, and plentiful enough to last the three travelers for more than a year.
"In the old days, however, before the Spaniards came, it was plentiful, so much, so that the natives made idols of it.
"That I can well believe," said Sancho at this, "for to come out with drolleries is not in everybody's line; and that Sancho your worship speaks of, gentle sir, must be some great scoundrel, dunderhead, and thief, all in one; for I am the real Sancho Panza, and I have more drolleries than if it rained them; let your worship only try; come along with me for a year or so, and you will find they fall from me at every turn, and so rich and so plentiful that though mostly I don't know what I am saying I make everybody that hears me laugh.
There was abundance, too, of the salt weed which grows most plentiful in clayey and gravelly barrens.