ABUNDANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abundant mean? 

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

1. present in great quantity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABUNDANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Present in great quantity

Context example:

an abundant supply of water

Similar:

abounding; galore (existing in abundance)

verdant (characterized by abundance of verdure)

torrential (pouring in abundance)

teeming (abundantly filled with especially living things)

superabundant (most excessively abundant)

rank (growing profusely)

rampant ((of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth)

plentiful (existing in great number or quantity)

overabundant; plethoric; rife (excessively abundant)

long (having or being more than normal or necessary)

thick (abounding; having a lot of)

exuberant; lush; luxuriant; profuse; riotous (produced or growing in extreme abundance)

easy (obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally)

copious; voluminous (large in number or quantity (especially of discourse))

ample; copious; plenteous; plentiful; rich (affording an abundant supply)

Also:

ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)

rich (possessing material wealth)

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 

Microscopically, it is characterized by the presence of highly atypical cytologic features, pleomorphism and abundant mitotic figures.

(Atypical Fibroxanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A variation of lymphocytes found in a peripheral blood smear that are larger, with abundant cytoplasm, and having nuclei with multiple nucleoli.

(Atypical Lymphocytes Present in Peripheral Blood, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of Burkitt lymphoma characterized by marked nuclear pleomorphism, abundant apoptotic debris, and the presence of tangible body macrophages.

(Atypical Burkitt/Burkitt-Like Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the transformation of the epithelial cells in a breast tissue sample to cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm.

(Apocrine Metaplasia of Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of large cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and large often vesicular nuclei.

(Apocrine Gland Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of cells with a large eccentric nucleus, prominent nucleolus, and abundant cytoplasm.

(Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs mainly bound to proteins or polypeptides and is abundant in liver, kidney, pancreas, yeast, and milk.

(Biotin, NCI Thesaurus)

A hepatocellular carcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm forming trabecular and pseudoglandular patterns.

(Moderately Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is abundant in a subset of astrocytes in the normal human brain, but greatly reduced in the alzheimer's disease (AD) brain.

(Metallothionein 3, NCI Thesaurus)

The native polypeptide is found in abundant levels in the kidney cortex and liver.

(Metallothionein, NCI Thesaurus)