Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing in great quantity or ample supply.
- adjective Providing or producing an abundance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing in great plenty; copious; abundant; ample.
- Yielding abundance; affording ample supply; fruitful.
- Lavish.
- = Syn.1 and Profuse, luxuriant. Plentiful is essentially the same as
plenteous . See comparison under ample.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample
- adjective Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
- adjective obsolete Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Existing in large number or
ample amount . - adjective Yielding
abundance ;fruitful . - adjective obsolete
lavish ;profuse ;prodigal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing in great number or quantity
- adjective affording an abundant supply
- adjective producing in abundance
Etymologies
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Examples
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"[D] oom and desperation are in plentiful supply from page one, and as the novel fades to black, the reader's left with a roster of sadder-but-wiser Americans to contemplate."
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Labor is in plentiful supply, especially in the construction industries, and employing it will reduce the burden on the benefits system without placing upward pressure on wages.
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November 17th, 2009 at 7: 54 pm dp: Our daily lives are lived by faith that someone else has performed the necessary experiments to insure our cities are safe, our food in plentiful, and our medicine is reliable.
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Our daily lives are lived by faith that someone else has performed the necessary experiments to insure our cities are safe, our food in plentiful, and our medicine is reliable.
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But while recruitment has risen and MBA graduates are in plentiful supply, half of the industry is struggling to find quality candidates with science, technology, engineering and maths skills.
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Final game programs were in plentiful supply and selling briskly.
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Although it was a much less popular war, photos of American dead were plentiful from the Korean War.
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Let's just say they are in plentiful supply and some of them have webbed duck's feet.
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Although it was a much less popular war, photos of American dead were plentiful from the Korean War.
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Of course, there's always the sun which normally is in plentiful supply.
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