Word Meanings - ABUNDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
Additional info about word: ABUNDANT
Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3. Syn. -- Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See Ample.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABUNDANT)
- Ample
- Large
- bountiful
- liberal
- copious
- spacious
- roomy
- diffusive
- full
- complete
- sufficient
- plentiful
- abundant
- Effuse
- Copious
- effluent
- Flowing
- fluent
- exuberant
- easy
- eloquent
- Fruitful
- Productive
- prolific
- pregnant
- fraught
- causative
- effectual
- useful
- successful
- fertile
- plenteous
- fecund
- Big
- bulky
- extensive
- capacious
- ample
- comprehensive
- enlightened
- catholic
- great
- vast
- wide
Related words: (words related to ABUNDANT)
- CATHOLICON
A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - COMPREHENSIVENESS
The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison. - BULKY
Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - PLENTIFUL
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. - CATHOLIC
1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - LIBERALIZE
To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - BOUNTIFUL
1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv. - CATHOLICIZE
To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic. - CATHOLICITY
1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality. 2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism. 3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy. - PREGNANT
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - DIFFUSIVENESS
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison. - AMPLENESS
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - UNEXAMPLED
Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey. - INELOQUENTLY
Without eloquence. - INSUFFICIENTLY
In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - ILLIBERALISM
Illiberality. - MELLIFLUENTLY
In a mellifluent manner.