plentiful

1. Plentiful, ample, abundant, bountiful describe a more than adequate supply of something. Plentiful suggests an over-adequate quantity: a plentiful supply. Ample suggests a more than adequate quality as well: to give ample praise. Abundant implies a greater degree of plenty, and bountiful a still more ample quality as well: an abundant, even a bountiful, harvest.

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While plentiful and cheap today, aluminum was once an extremely valuable metal.
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During the plentiful dry season, women consumed more calories and more energy-rich lipids.
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Stray-dog problem under control and plentiful servings of stew available at Olympic hotel restaurants.
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Langford sprang to his friends aid, using his fists with plentiful freedom in his haste to get to him.
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They are obtained from fragments of the gigantic salt vessels so plentiful in that locality.
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Inns were not so plentiful at this time as they afterward became.
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This was his way of offering thanks either to us or the "gods," for the plentiful supply of tobacco.
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The game was bigger and more dangerous in New England, but never had he found it so plentiful.
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British Dictionary definitions for plentiful

plentiful

adjective

ample; abundant

having or yielding an abundancea plentiful year

Derived Formsplentifully, adverbplentifulness, noun

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Word Origin and History for plentiful

plentiful

adj.

late 15c., from plenty + -ful. Related: Plentifully.

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