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/plˈɛntəfəl/ /plˈɛntɪfəl/ /plˈɛnəfəl/ /plˈɛnɪfəl/ Listen

adjective

Plentiful adj.

Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.

Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. "If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year."

Lavish; profuse; prodigal. (Obs.) "He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from"

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plentiful" Quotes from Famous Books

... produce valuable colours if experiments were made with the right mordants. Those which have been in use in the Highlands are most of them good dyes. Among these are Ladies Bedstraw, whortleberry, yellow iris, bracken, bramble, meadow sweet, alder, heather and many others. The yellow dyes are most plentiful and many of these are good fast colours. Practically no good red, in quantity, is obtainable. Madder is the only reliable red dye among plants, and that is no longer indigenous in England. Most of the dye plants require a preparation ...

— Vegetable Dyes - Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer • Ethel M. Mairet

... his mouth—it might have been tripe, or bullock's heart or chitterlings for all he knew or cared. His jolly laugh served as a bass for the more treble buzz and clatter of the pleasant place. I have never seen a man exude such plentiful happiness. Liosha ate unthinkingly, her elbows on the table, after the manner of Albania, her hat not straight—I whispered the information as (through force of training) I should have whispered it to Barbara, with no other result than an impatient push which rendered it more piquantly ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... strong, instinctive fight to retain his native cheerfulness unimpaired. He had naturally a plentiful stream of life and humour, a sense of sufficiency and exuberance, giving ease. But now it tended to cause tension. A strained light came into his eyes, he had a slight knitting of the brows. His boisterous humour gave place to lowering silences, ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... late development of the bovine stock, as they do not certainly appear before the upper Pliocene of Europe and Asia, and even at a later date their remains are not plentiful. Goats appear to have been rather the earlier, but are entirely ...

— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

... trying to follow the keeper's directions, Crawley did hit a snipe as it was flushed, but it was his only one. They were much more plentiful than usual in that part, and lay like stones, so that they had plenty of shooting, and William groaned in spirit over the opportunity of sport that had been wasted on two boys. What a tip Sir Harry would have given him in his delight if he had come out ...

— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough

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