plentiful
adjective (plentiful, more plentiful, most plentiful)
Everyday
Plentiful means there is a lot of something, more than enough. tree →
In the lessons
In science and geography it describes food, water or animals that are easy to find; in stories it shows good times (a plentiful harvest). Phrases: plentiful supply, plentiful food.
Examples
- Apples were plentiful in the autumn. tree →
- Fish are plentiful in this river. tree →
- There was a plentiful supply of water. tree →
- In a good year, food is plentiful. tree →
- Rabbits are plentiful in the fields. tree →
- Sunshine is plentiful in Australia. tree →
- A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. tree →
Note
Spelling: plenty → plentiful (y changes to i, and one l at the end). Opposite: scarce. «Plentiful» means «a lot» but no exact number; maths problems will give the number.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «plentiful» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «plentiful» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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