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- Dictionaryplenteous/ˈplɛntɪəs/
adjective
- 1. plentiful: literary "the meal was astonishingly plenteous"
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large in amount, or available in large amounts: The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. When a man comes to tears, constant tears, plenteous tears, he is in earnest indeed. Synonym. plentiful. Fewer examples. To my mind, the meal was astonishingly plenteous.
The meaning of PLENTEOUS is fruitful, productive —usually used with in or of. How to use plenteous in a sentence.
Plenteous definition: plentiful; copious; abundant. See examples of PLENTEOUS used in a sentence.
2 meanings: 1. ample; abundant 2. producing or yielding abundantly.... Click for more definitions.
Something that's plenteous is abundant — there's plenty of it. If the spaghetti at dinner is plenteous, you won't think twice about having seconds, or even thirds. You can use the adjectives plenteous and plentiful interchangeably, although plenteous is the more literary and poetic of the two words.
Definition of plenteous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Synonyms for PLENTEOUS: plentiful, ample, generous, plenty, abundant, bountiful, sufficient, enough; Antonyms of PLENTEOUS: minimal, insufficient, inadequate, scant, bare, lacking, spare, meager.
