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PLENTIFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording an abundant supply
Example:
a rich supply
Synonyms:
ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich
Classified under:
Similar:
abundant (present in great quantity)
Derivation:
plentifulness (a full supply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Existing in great number or quantity
Example:
rhinoceroses were once plentiful here
Classified under:
Similar:
abundant (present in great quantity)
Derivation:
plentifulness (a full supply)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Producing in abundance
Example:
fruitful soil
Synonyms:
bountiful; plentiful
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)
Context examples:
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say they compared genetic material from mammoths when they were plentiful and material from when the population was in decline.
(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)
“If the water abundance in Jupiter were found to be plentiful as predicted, it would imply that it formed in a different way to the exoplanets we looked at in the current study.”
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Most scientists have homed in on the northern and southern mid-latitudes, which have more plentiful sunlight and warmer temperatures than the poles.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
Out of the plentiful spawn of life she flung from her prolific hand she selected only the best.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As the day wore along he came into valleys or swales where game was more plentiful.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The locations of these different types of features reinforces the idea that the shallow subsurface of Ceres is a mixture of ice and rock, and that ice is most plentiful near the surface at the poles.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
The meeting was generally felt to be a pleasant one, being composed in a good proportion of those who would talk and those who would listen; and the dinner itself was elegant and plentiful, according to the usual style of the Grants, and too much according to the usual habits of all to raise any emotion except in Mrs. Norris, who could never behold either the wide table or the number of dishes on it with patience, and who did always contrive to experience some evil from the passing of the servants behind her chair, and to bring away some fresh conviction of its being impossible among so many dishes but that some must be cold.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Today, this dust is plentiful and is a key building block in the formation of stars, planets and complex molecules; but in the early Universe — before the first generations of stars died out — it was scarce.
(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)
