PLENTIFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plentiful mean? 

• PLENTIFUL (adjective)
  The adjective PLENTIFUL has 3 senses:

1. existing in great number or quantity

2. affording an abundant supply

3. producing in abundance

  Familiarity information: PLENTIFUL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLENTIFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing in great number or quantity

Context example:

rhinoceroses were once plentiful here

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

plentifulness (a full supply)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affording an abundant supply

Synonyms:

ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich

Context example:

a rich supply

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

plentifulness (a full supply)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Producing in abundance

Synonyms:

bountiful; plentiful

Context example:

fruitful soil

Similar:

fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)

 Context examples 

“Shillings have not been so plentiful with me as they once were,” he remarked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These reproductive cells were not merely more plentiful in ABVD patients.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

There was no display of gifts, for they were already in the little house, nor was there an elaborate breakfast, but a plentiful lunch of cake and fruit, dressed with flowers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Over the tropics, water vapor and ultraviolet sunlight are plentiful.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

These atmospheres consist mostly of the primordial, lighter-weight gases hydrogen and helium, the most plentiful elements in the universe.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

Frozen carbon dioxide, commonly called dry ice, does not exist naturally on Earth, but is plentiful on Mars.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

The logical starting point was to begin with the two gases most plentiful in Titan’s atmosphere: nitrogen and methane.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The researchers found when fish were plentiful, they would eat algae and seaweed off the corals, which appeared to leave them more resistant to the bacterium Vibrio coralliilyticus, a bacterium associated with bleaching.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

Though water may be plentiful, previously-explored methods are complex and require environmentally harmful solvents and massive amounts of energy to produce the needed catalysts at a large scale.

(Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production, National Science Foundation)