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/plˈɛntəfəl/ /plˈɛntɪfəl/ /plˈɛnəfəl/ /plˈɛnɪfəl/ Listen

adjective

Plentiful adj.

Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.

Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. "If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year."

Lavish; profuse; prodigal. (Obs.) "He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from"

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Etymology of 'Plentiful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plentiful" Quotes from Famous Books

... and identifying a number of warblers,—the speckled Canada, the black-throated blue, the yellow-rumped, and Audubon's warbler. The latter, which was leading its troop of young through a thick undergrowth on the banks of the creek where insects were plentiful, was ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... that made his blood boil with rage. He never dared enter churches, nor fall on his knees as formerly before the bleeding crucifix in his mother's room. If he heard hell mentioned, he fled in terror. He gave plentiful alms to churches, and paid for Masses he never heard; he put candles before the images, and in the privacy of his chamber he puerilely amused himself in asking fate, by the tossing of money, whether he would be eternally ...

— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds

... her body a hair [hair cloth], had fasted all the days of her life save Sabbaths and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel. She was a fair woman and her husband had left her much riches, with plentiful meiny, and possessions of droves of oxen and flocks of sheep, and she was a famous woman and dreaded God greatly. And when she had heard that Ozias had said, that the fifth day the city should be given over if God helped them not, she sent ...

— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells

... been abundantly answered, my highest hopes of your future fully realized. Henceforth, let us with renewed energy labor faithfully in the vast, whitening fields of Him who declares, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers ...

— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... their ferocious and frozen demeanor common to first-nights and less common where cocktails were plentiful. Not for them to encourage a tyro and a confrere, as if they were mere friends and well-wishers. They left that to the others, but after the last act had been discussed with fury, Abbott arose ...

— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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