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Definition of plenteous in English: plenteousadjective ˈplɛntɪəsˈplɛn(t)iəs literary Plentiful. 〈诗/文〉丰富的,充足的,丰产的 the meal was astonishingly plenteous Example sentencesExamples - Your Honour, although my notes are plenteous, I think I have covered most of what I have to say.
- So, I spent my first evening in Singapore contemplating my penniless state, surrounded by glamorous people, and drinking the plenteous free refills the barman provided me with.
- The harvest is plenteous but the labourers few.
- There are plenteous places in Singapore where we get economically-priced burgers, sandwiches and cold coffee.
- The plenteous natural resources like water and fertile soil and the greenery, keep people satisfied.
- We surveyed Roosevelt Road, where churches seemed as plenteous as liquor stores.
- Her beauty was dazzling; even her enemies - and they were plenteous - could not deny this.
- Third, it leaves plenteous room for continued debate and diverse private opinion about the issue.
- And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural.
- Of the plenteous perks of publishing a birding blog, and rest assured, they are manifold, one of the best has to be the free stuff.
- Their achievements are so plenteous they could fill a book.
- People travel from far and wide to visit this town's plenteous antique stores.
Synonyms abundant, superabundant, plentiful, ample, profuse, full, extensive, considerable, substantial, generous, bumper, lavish, fulsome, liberal, bountiful, overflowing, abounding, teeming plentiful, abundant, copious, ample, profuse, rich, lavish, liberal, generous, bountiful, large, huge, great, bumper, flush, overflowing, superabundant, infinite, inexhaustible, opulent, prolific, teeming
Derivativesplenteously 〈诗/文〉丰富的,充足的,丰产的 adverb ˈplɛntɪəsliˈplɛn(t)iəsli literary The ground untilled all kinds of fruits did plenteously afford. Example sentencesExamples - He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
- The Lord will give us his peace most plenteously, but not in a way of idleness.
noun ˈplɛntɪəsnəsˈplɛn(t)iəsnəs literary He addresses Jerusalem herself: They have plenteousness who love her. Example sentencesExamples - ‘In God there is not hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.’
- The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French plentivous, from plentif, -ive, from plente 'plenty'. Compare with bounteous. Definition of plenteous in US English: plenteousadjectiveˈplen(t)ēəsˈplɛn(t)iəs literary Plentiful. 〈诗/文〉丰富的,充足的,丰产的 the meal was astonishingly plenteous Example sentencesExamples - Your Honour, although my notes are plenteous, I think I have covered most of what I have to say.
- People travel from far and wide to visit this town's plenteous antique stores.
- Of the plenteous perks of publishing a birding blog, and rest assured, they are manifold, one of the best has to be the free stuff.
- The harvest is plenteous but the labourers few.
- So, I spent my first evening in Singapore contemplating my penniless state, surrounded by glamorous people, and drinking the plenteous free refills the barman provided me with.
- Her beauty was dazzling; even her enemies - and they were plenteous - could not deny this.
- We surveyed Roosevelt Road, where churches seemed as plenteous as liquor stores.
- There are plenteous places in Singapore where we get economically-priced burgers, sandwiches and cold coffee.
- And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural.
- Their achievements are so plenteous they could fill a book.
- Third, it leaves plenteous room for continued debate and diverse private opinion about the issue.
- The plenteous natural resources like water and fertile soil and the greenery, keep people satisfied.
Synonyms abundant, superabundant, plentiful, ample, profuse, full, extensive, considerable, substantial, generous, bumper, lavish, fulsome, liberal, bountiful, overflowing, abounding, teeming plentiful, abundant, copious, ample, profuse, rich, lavish, liberal, generous, bountiful, large, huge, great, bumper, flush, overflowing, superabundant, infinite, inexhaustible, opulent, prolific, teeming
OriginMiddle English: from Old French plentivous, from plentif, -ive, from plente ‘plenty’. Compare with bounteous. |