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UK
/bˈaʊntiəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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given or giving freely
was a big tipper
a freehanded host
a munificent gift
the bounteous goodness of God
Saturday's child is loving and giving
a handsome allowance
her fond and openhanded grandfather
bountiful compliments
a munificent gift
a liberal backer of the arts
How To Use bounteous In A Sentence
- Early reports from America told of boundless fecundity in the natural world; bounteous nature seemed to promise that all the commodities Europeans gathered from around the world would grow there.
- The bookshop was not quite as bounteous as its name suggested.
- Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
- Adapting to Nature's suddenly proffered fruitful bounteousness. Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted
- The food is - as elsewhere - bounteous and, well, adequate.
- Christopher Brookmyre on Anathem by Neal Stephenson: Weighing in at 800 head-stretching pages, Anathem demands a near-avout level of commitment, but rewards those who enter its concent with bounteous gifts of wisdom, beauty and 'upsight'. Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
- The very name of Canary is a cheerful one, associated as it is with the idea of bounteous vineyards, and of those little golden birds that make music all over the world. Journal of an African Cruiser
- Still, we Irish are renowned for our bounteous big-heartedness.
- Their feasts were events of careful consideration and long preparation, and those whose memories carry them back to the early days, recall bounteous loading of tables when festal occasion called for display. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
- You have already been more bounteous of your favours to Henry Smith than your mother, whom God assoilzie, ever was to me before I married her. The Fair Maid of Perth