Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring in abundance: synonym: plentiful.
- adjective Having an abundance of something; abounding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plentiful; present in great quantity; fully sufficient: as, an abundant supply.
- Possessing in great quantity; copiously supplied; having great plenty; abounding: followed by in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by
in , rarely bywith . - adjective (Math.) a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a
deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to aperfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective present in great quantity
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Examples
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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California, a multicultural society living in abundant sunshine and natural beauty, a paradise somehow wanting to be improved by Yankee ingenuity and the American work ethic.
Richard Henry Dana 2010
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And heaven forbid we should think of our own interests in abundant supply instead of coddling the precious young lawyers!
Matthew Yglesias » Too Many Lawyers, But Also Too Many Cartels 2010
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There is great pride in abundant, draping hanging baskets.
Liz O'Connell: Proviso: Always on Track Liz O'Connell 2010
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The effects of this sort of fear are to be found in abundant evidence all around us: It surrounds us in all media, at our local supermarkets, and in this country's vast dependency on drugs (both illicit and legal).
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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An abundant number is smaller than the sum of its divisors: in my case, the sum of one, two, three, four, and six (twelve’s divisors) is sixteen.
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas Condé Nast 2019
writer723 commented on the word abundant
abundant
–adjective
Occurring in or marked by abundance; plentiful.
April 17, 2011
itsteganyay commented on the word abundant
"It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it might strike them that they could be more economically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Scotland." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
August 17, 2015