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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plentiful \Plen"ti*ful\, adjective
1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.
2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. --Bacon.
3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal. [Obs.]
He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from --Bacon. -- {Plen"ti*ful*ly}, adverb -- {Plen"ti*ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plentiful
adjective
1: existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here"
2: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: {ample}, {copious}, {plenteous}, {rich}]
3: producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil" [syn: {bountiful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "plentiful": abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, bursting, bursting out, copious, countless, creative, diffuse, effuse, enough, epidemic, excessive, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fulsome, galore, generous, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenty, plethoric, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, pullulating, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, sufficient, superabundant, swarming, swimming, teeming, thriving, uberous, unstinted, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale
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