Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective comparative form of ample: more ample

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ampler.

Examples

  • Primitive roads, clogged waterways, lack of rail connections, inadequate schools -- Such were not merely issues to Lincoln, but hurdles he had worked all his life to overcome in order to earn an ampler share of freedom.

    Dan Bimrose: Young Abe Lincoln on Infrastructure Investment Dan Bimrose 2011

  • Whitman celebrated the openness, solidarity, and energy of the Americans, since it gave them an "ampler largeness and stir" than any people who preceded them.

    ‘On Whitman’: The Real American 2010

  • As a rule, warm weather teams have hotter cheerleaders, though cheerleaders with cold weather teams tend to have ampler breasts, as their heavier uniforms require more exaggerated protuberances to properly "project" in high-def.

    The Sportsman's Daily: What are the Odds? Super Bowl Picks from the Legendary Ernie Epps 2009

  • And why, if he's an ass-kisser, would he not choose an ampler and more influential ass than Obama's?

    Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009

  • The Styrian Orientalist129 quotes with sundry misprints130 an ampler version of a passage in Chapter lxviii., which is abbreviated in the French translation of M.C. Barbier de Meynard. 131

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For what ampler commendation, what purer testimony could I produce in my support, what more eloquent advocacy?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • For what ampler commendation, what purer testimony could I produce in my support, what more eloquent advocacy?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Then I espied folk standing about the mouth of the pit, who presently let down a dead man and a live woman, weeping and bemoaning herself, and with her an ampler supply of bread and water than usual. 50 I saw her and she was a beautiful woman; but she saw me not; and they closed up the opening and went away.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This etiquette soon found even ampler opportunity for the display of domestic tyranny; for Lieutenant – General de

    The Ball at Sceaux 2007

  • The terrestrial energies on which we can rely effectively exist in very small amounts, whereas the use of those which exist in ampler amounts is surrounded by great risks and formidable technical obstacles.

    Energy and economic myths (historical) Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.