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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
And then it ended up being really bountiful and generative.
From Los Angeles Times
So is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who claims that “real affordability relief” is coming soon and it will be a “bountiful” 2026.
From Salon
Significantly, the name Paul Reubens is absent from the title of this bountiful, sweet and sometimes melancholy look at one of pop culture’s great creations and its creator.
From Los Angeles Times
Young artists emerging from Southern California’s bountiful art schools decided, en masse, to stick around.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Hunter is unquestionably among the first tier of American playwrights, and his crystalline works are bountiful gifts to actors, in this case particularly the superlative Paul Sparks.
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