PLENTEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plenteous mean? 

• PLENTEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective PLENTEOUS has 1 sense:

1. affording an abundant supply

  Familiarity information: PLENTEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLENTEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affording an abundant supply

Synonyms:

ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich

Context example:

a rich supply

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

plenteousness; plenty (a full supply)

plenty ((often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent)

 Context examples 

I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No charm was wanting, no defect was perceptible; the young girl had regular and delicate lineaments; eyes shaped and coloured as we see them in lovely pictures, large, and dark, and full; the long and shadowy eyelash which encircles a fine eye with so soft a fascination; the pencilled brow which gives such clearness; the white smooth forehead, which adds such repose to the livelier beauties of tint and ray; the cheek oval, fresh, and smooth; the lips, fresh too, ruddy, healthy, sweetly formed; the even and gleaming teeth without flaw; the small dimpled chin; the ornament of rich, plenteous tresses—all advantages, in short, which, combined, realise the ideal of beauty, were fully hers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)