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ABUNDANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Present in great quantity
Example:
an abundant supply of water
Classified under:
Similar:
abounding; galore (existing in abundance)
ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich (affording an abundant supply)
copious; voluminous (large in number or quantity (especially of discourse))
easy (obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally)
exuberant; lush; luxuriant; profuse; riotous (produced or growing in extreme abundance)
thick (abounding; having a lot of)
long (having or being more than normal or necessary)
overabundant; plethoric; rife (excessively abundant)
plentiful (existing in great number or quantity)
rampant ((of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth)
rank (growing profusely)
superabundant (most excessively abundant)
teeming (abundantly filled with especially living things)
torrential (pouring in abundance)
verdant (characterized by abundance of verdure)
Also:
rich (possessing material wealth)
ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)
Attribute:
quantity (an adequate or large amount)
Antonym:
scarce (deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand)
Derivation:
abound (be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities)
abundance (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Context examples:
The malignant cells are round with abundant cytoplasm and vesicular nuclei.
(Medullary breast carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic finding that indicates the presence of cells with abundant eosinophilic and granular cytoplasm in a tumor sample.
(Apocrine Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma of the breast characterized by the presence of two intermingled cellular components: cells with abundant granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm, and cells with abundant cytoplasm containing fine empty vacuoles.
(Apocrine Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A pleomorphic cell of the pulmonary alveolar epithelium that secretes surfactant and is distinguished by abundant cytoplasm containing numerous lipid-rich multilamellar bodies.
(Alveolar Cell Type II, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of large lymphoid cells with abundant cytoplasm and prominent nucleoli.
(Adult Immunoblastic Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the formation of a cambium layer in the affected tissue and polypoid nodules with an abundant myxoid stroma.
(Adult Botryoid-Type Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it might strike them that they could be more economically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Scotland.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A rare malignant neoplasm characterized by the presence of large epithelioid cells with abundant cytoplasm forming nests and pseudoalveolar structures.
(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The vascular tissue is more abundant at the periphery of the tumor and contains fibrin thrombi.
(Angiolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A T-cell peripheral lymphoma composed of usually large, pleomorphic, CD30 positive T-lymphocytes with abundant cytoplasm characterized by the presence of a translocation involving the ALK gene and expression of ALK fusion protein.
(Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, ALK-Positive, NCI Thesaurus)
