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/plˈɛntiəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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affording an abundant supply
a rich supply
food is plentiful
had ample food for the party
had ample food for the party
a plenteous grape harvest
copious provisions
How To Use plenteous In A Sentence
- 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.
- City, a Friar Minor, an Inquisitor after matters of Faith; who, although he laboured greatly to seeme a sanctified man, and an earnest affecter of Christian Religion, (as all of them appeare to be in outward shew;) yet he was a much better Inquisitor after them that had their purses plenteously stored with money, then of such as were slenderly grounded in Faith. The Decameron
- Her beauty was dazzling; even her enemies - and they were plenteous - could not deny this.
- For a poor and graceless scribbler to feel some degree of envy at the "plenteous fatness" of Mr. H.'s purse is extremely natural.
- a plenteous grape harvest
- The harvest is plenteous but the labourers few.
- The next person that addressed himself to the chief was a gentleman of a very mathematical turn, who valued himself upon the improvements he had made in several domestic machines, and now presented the plan of a new contrivance for cutting cabbages, in such a manner as would secure the stock against the rotting rain, and enable it to produce a plenteous aftercrop of delicious sprouts. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- People travel from far and wide to visit this town's plenteous antique stores.
- We attach great importance to the cooperation with you, hoping our joint venture will obtain a plenteous result.
- There grow all manner of spicery, more plenteously than in any other country, as of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and maces. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville