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SUPERABUNDANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does superabundant mean?
• SUPERABUNDANT (adjective)
The adjective SUPERABUNDANT has 1 sense:
1. most excessively abundant
Familiarity information: SUPERABUNDANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Most excessively abundant
Similar:
abundant (present in great quantity)
Derivation:
superabundance (a quantity that is more than what is appropriate)
Context examples
But if prehistoric life existed upon the plateau it was not superabundant, for we had no further glimpse of it during the next three days.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That there were now occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which he inferred the cotton did not exclude, from the circumstance of his evidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom to expend her superabundant agitation when the sounds were loudest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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