Adjective: plentiful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | plentifuller; plentifuler |
| Superlative | plentifullest; plentifulest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more plentiful |
| Superlative | most plentiful |
Sample Sentences
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a plentiful harvest
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a plentiful supply of water
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She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.
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Most of the three- and four-story white-washed buildings that we passed were built of pink coraline, which is both plentiful and fractile, and date back centuries to when Omanis and Indians based on Zanzibar dominated the African East Coast trade. [1997 March 30, Paula Budlong Cronin, “Unexpected Zanzibar”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2020:]
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Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
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If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
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He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Expense”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
Etymology
From Middle English plentiful, plentyfull, plentefull, equivalent to plenty + -ful.