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UK
/bˈaʊntɪfəl/
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[ US /ˈbaʊnɪfəɫ, ˈbaʊntɪfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbaʊnɪfəɫ, ˈbaʊntɪfəɫ/ ]
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 -
producing in abundance
the bountiful earth
a plentiful year
fruitful soil
How To Use bountiful In A Sentence
- He took nourishment from press conferences, where he was notably generous, but not bountiful enough to promise a match.
- THE CHRISTMASES OF QUEEN VICTORIA have been kept with much bountifulness, but after the gracious manner of a Christian Queen who cares more for the welfare of her beloved subjects than for ostentatious display. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
- Maybe it's not too much to say that our delight also makes us repent of the ways we fail to share our bountiful and abundant food when many are starving.
- And she still answereth me, ‘Allah is bountiful: good will presently betide thee.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Its bountiful supply of offshore oil should make it one of Africa's richest countries.
- It's like God and Buddha just heaped bountiful blessings on every snarky blogger in the world.
- Industrial successes, bountiful harvests and the good deeds of happy citizens follow for 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
- State aid is less bountiful than it was before.
- Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice. Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
- When read as a literary whole, Genesis 1-2 posits a world that is divinely beneficent and bountiful, in no need of human genius to improve or control it.