BOUNTIFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bountiful mean? 

• BOUNTIFUL (adjective)
  The adjective BOUNTIFUL has 2 senses:

1. given or giving freely

2. producing in abundance

  Familiarity information: BOUNTIFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUNTIFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given or giving freely

Synonyms:

big; bighearted; bounteous; bountiful; freehanded; giving; handsome; liberal; openhanded

Context example:

her fond and openhanded grandfather

Similar:

generous (willing to give and share unstintingly)

Derivation:

bountifulness (the property of copious abundance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Producing in abundance

Synonyms:

bountiful; plentiful

Context example:

fruitful soil

Similar:

fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)

Derivation:

bountifulness (the property of copious abundance)

 Context examples 

My dear sir, you really are too bountiful.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Now, a bountiful change will arrive on December 2, when Jupiter, your ruling planet, will enter Capricorn and bring financial good fortune to you at long last.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my helper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Your big moment of the month will be your birthday new moon in Pisces on February 23 to use as a bountiful gift in any way you please.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You are too bountiful!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)