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adjective
- 1. plentiful: literary "the meal was astonishingly plenteous"
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large in amount, or available in large amounts: The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. When a man comes to tears, constant tears, plenteous tears, he is in earnest indeed. Synonym. plentiful. Fewer examples. To my mind, the meal was astonishingly plenteous.
Something that's plenteous is abundant — there's plenty of it. If the spaghetti at dinner is plenteous, you won't think twice about having seconds, or even thirds. You can use the adjectives plenteous and plentiful interchangeably, although plenteous is the more literary and poetic of the two words.
adjective. 1. ample; abundant. a plenteous supply of food. 2. producing or yielding abundantly. a plenteous grape harvest. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. plenteously (ˈplenteously) adverb. plenteousness (ˈplenteousness) noun. Word origin.
Plenteous definition: plentiful; copious; abundant. See examples of PLENTEOUS used in a sentence.
1. : fruitful, productive. a plenteous harvest J. G. Frazer. usually used with in or of. the seasons had been plenteous in corn George Eliot. 2. : constituting or existing in plenty. plenteous grace with thee is found Charles Wesley. plenteously adverb. plenteousness noun. Synonyms. abundant. ample. aplenty. bounteous. bountiful. comfortable.
Definition of plenteous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
All you need to know about "PLENTEOUS" in one place: definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
Define plenteous. plenteous synonyms, plenteous pronunciation, plenteous translation, English dictionary definition of plenteous. adj. 1. Abundant; copious: plenteous crops. See Synonyms at plentiful. 2. Archaic Producing or yielding in abundance: plentiful land. plen′te·ous·ly adv....
plenteous, adj. & adv. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Marked by or being in abundance; plentiful; copious. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Producing abundantly; fruitful; productive. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: rich. plentiful. copious. ample. voluminous. substantial. plenitudinous. heavy. generous. bountiful. bounteous. abundant. Origin of Plenteous.
