Adjective: ample
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | ampler |
| Superlative | amplest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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We have an ample supply of water
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She has a very ample bosom.
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[H]e was satisfied that Alice yet lived; he hoped she might yet escape and return. […] He enriched Mrs. Jones for life, in gratitude for her vindication of his lost and early love: he promised the amplest rewards for the smallest clue. [1837, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in Ernest Maltravers […] , volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 111:]
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It was pointed out to me that the security was ample, and as I had no practical knowledge of house-valuing there was nothing to be gained by inspecting it. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
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an ample story
Adjectives inflected like ample
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s
4. Proto-Italic *amlos?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-s
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
9. Proto-Italic *amβi-
10. Latin ambi-
11. Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
13. Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
14. Proto-Italic *plēnosder.
15. Latin plēnus?
16. Latin ambiplus?
17. Latin amplus
18. Old French ample
19. Middle French amplebor.
20. Middle English ample
21. English ample
22. From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”). See: Latin Adjectives '
amplus'.
Verbs referencing "ample"
Spanish Adjectives
amplio.