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BOUNTEOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bounteous mean?
• BOUNTEOUS (adjective)
The adjective BOUNTEOUS has 1 sense:
1. given or giving freely
Familiarity information: BOUNTEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Given or giving freely
Synonyms:
big; bighearted; bounteous; bountiful; freehanded; giving; handsome; liberal; openhanded
Context example:
her fond and openhanded grandfather
Similar:
generous (willing to give and share unstintingly)
Derivation:
bounteousness; bounty (generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely)
Context examples
I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sometimes her family were invited in to help eat up a too bounteous feast of successes, or Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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