bountiful
1 Americanadjective
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liberal in bestowing gifts, favors, or bounties; munificent; generous.
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abundant; ample.
a bountiful supply.
noun
adjective
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plentiful; ample (esp in the phrase a bountiful supply )
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giving freely; generous
Usage
What does bountiful mean? Bountiful describes something abundant or plentiful. For example, if you have so many pens that you think you’ll never run out of them, you could say you have a bountiful supply of pens.Bountiful also means generous, especially in giving gifts or favors. For example, you could say that a new job is bountiful because it pays a lot of money or has a lot of benefits, like its own coffee bar with a barista, hammocks, and a skateboard park.Example: The city had a bountiful supply of interesting museums to visit.
Related Words
Other Word Forms
- bountifully adverb
- bountifulness noun
- unbountiful adjective
- unbountifully adverb
- unbountifulness noun
Etymology
Origin of bountiful
Example Sentences
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The very goal long-clamored for by U.S. policymakers—vanquishing the cable monopolies and opening video markets to bountiful customer choice—has been Netflix’s greatest triumph.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
But the best album category will be hotly contested, after a bountiful year for British music.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
And then it ended up being really bountiful and generative.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
“The Black Spot,” which Fuchs and Kane co-wrote, displays the fruit of Derry’s bigotry in all its nastiness, a harvest so ripe and bountiful that Pennywise feasts to satiety.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025
She had not had any appetite for the bountiful meal downstairs, but now she was feeling a hunger she knew nothing about.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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