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 Definitions for plenty: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Plenty \Plen"ty\, n.; pl. Plenties, in --Shak. [OE. plentee,
plente, OF. plent['e], fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See
Full, a., and cf. Complete.]
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency;
specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample
supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of
corn and wine." --Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and
plenty." --Shak.
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Houses of office stuffed with plentee. --Chaucer.
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The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the
world. --Thomson.
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Syn: Abundance; exuberance. See Abundance.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Plenty \Plen"ty\, a.
Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. --Shak.
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Those countries where shrubs are plenty. --Goldsmith.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
: plenty
n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn:
plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude]
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, {good
deal}, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, pot, {quite
a little}, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, {tidy
sum}, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
adv : as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is
nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: enough]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
: 272 Moby Thesaurus words for "plenty":
a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant,
abundantly, accumulation, acres, adequate, affluence, affluent,
all-sufficing, amassment, ample, ample sufficiency, ampleness,
amplitude, aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, avalanche,
backlog, bags, barely sufficient, barrels, beaucoup, bonanza,
bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bountifulness, bountiousness,
budget, bumper crop, bushel, collection, commensurate,
commissariat, commissary, competent, considerable, considerably,
copious, copiousness, cornucopia, corresponding, countlessness,
cumulation, decent, deluge, diffuse, due, dump, effuse,
embarras de richesses, enough, epidemic, equal to, ever so,
ever so much, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagant,
exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, fit, flood, flow,
flush, foison, full, full measure, fullness, galore, generosity,
generous, generousness, good, good enough, great abundance,
great deal, great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, heaps, highly,
hoard, in great measure, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible,
infinitude, innumerability, inundation, inventory, landslide,
larder, largely, lavish, lavishness, liberal, liberality,
liberalness, load, loads, lot, lots, luxuriance, luxuriant, many,
manyness, mass, masses, material, materials, materiel, maximal,
maximum, mess, minimal, minimum, money to burn, more than enough,
mountain, mountains, much, muchly, multifariousness, multifoldness,
multiplicity, multitude, multitudes, multitudinousness, munitions,
myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no end of, not a little,
numbers, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oodles, opulence,
opulency, opulent, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation,
overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow,
overflowing, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure,
overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty,
overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, pack,
peck, pile, piles, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous,
plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty good enough,
plethora, pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal,
prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness,
profusion, profusive, proportionate, provisionment, provisions,
quantities, quantity, rampant, rations, redundancy, repertoire,
repertory, replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest,
rich vein, richness, rick, rife, rifeness, riot, riotous,
riotousness, running over, satisfactory, scads, scores, sea,
shower, sight, slews, so, so very much, spate, stack, stacks,
stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream,
substantial, substantiality, substantialness, sufficient,
sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, superabundance, superabundant,
superfluity, superflux, supplies, supply on hand, swarmingness,
teeming, teemingness, to the skies, tons, treasure, treasury,
up to, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, world,
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