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bountious

bountious is the obsolete form of bounteous.

Meaning of bounteous

Adjective

bounteous (comparative more bounteous, superlative most bounteous)

  1. Inclined to be generous.
    • Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lentc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (usually) Liberal or abundant.
    • “Your Grace may be well assured,” said the Friar, “that, with the grace of Saint Dunstan, I shall find the way of multiplying your most bounteous gift.”1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XL, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page...
  3. Large.
    • The house came with a bounteous yard.

Forms of bountious

comparativemore bountious
superlativemost bountious

Questions about bountious

What is bountious the obsolete form of?
Bountious is the obsolete form of bounteous.

Words near bountious in the dictionary

  1. bountifully
  2. bountifulness
  3. bountihead
  4. bountihood
  5. bountiless
  6. bountious
  7. bountiousness
  8. bountith
  9. bountiths
  10. bounty
  11. bounty hunter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bountious (page history and authors); bounteous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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