plentiful

«plentiful» in Mova's school dictionary: a lot of something, more than enough — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (plentiful, more plentiful, most plentiful)

meaning for a pupil

Plentiful means there is a lot of something, more than enough. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography it describes food, water or animals that are easy to find; in stories it shows good times (a plentiful harvest). Phrases: plentiful supply, plentiful food.

examples

• Apples were plentiful in the autumn. tree →
• Fish are plentiful in this river. tree →
• There was a plentiful supply of water. tree →
• In a good year, food is plentiful. tree →
• Rabbits are plentiful in the fields. tree →
• Sunshine is plentiful in Australia. tree →
• A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. tree →

note

Spelling: plenty → plentiful (y changes to i, and one l at the end). Opposite: scarce. «Plentiful» means «a lot» but no exact number; maths problems will give the number.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plentiful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.