plenty
UK/ˈplɛnti//ˈplɛnti/
plenty noun: a more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
Noun
plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)
- A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to...1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
Pronoun
plenty
- More than enough.
- Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.
Adverb
plenty (not comparable)
- More than sufficiently.
- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1
- Used as an intensifier, very.
- She was plenty mad at him.
- 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor. 'Shops is plenty expensive in St Pete. Plenty hot down there too. You folks been to Florida before?'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 100
Determiner
plenty
Adjective
plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)
- Plentiful.
- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV
- There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- plenteous
Proper noun capitalized: Plenty
Plenty
plenty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
plenty in Hindi
- a more-than-adequate amount
- पर्याप्त paryāpt
plenty in Tamil
- நிறைய, பலவகை
plenty in Urdu
- plenty, excess
- کثرت kasrat
plenty in Bengali
- বিস্তর, প্রাচুয্র্য, পর্যাপ্তি, জাস্তি, প্রতুল, প্রচুর
More languagesFewer languages
- plenty in Telugu
- సమృద్ధి samr̥ddhi, పెంపు pempu
- plenty in Malayalam
- വിപുലത, ഫലപുഷ്ടി, സമൃദ്ധി, ധാരാളത
- plenty in Kannada
- ಹೇರಳ, ತುಂಬಾ, ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು
- plenty in Punjabi
- بہتیرا bahuterā, ਬਥੇਰਾ batherā, ਖ਼ੂਬ xūb, ਰੱਜ rajja
- plenty in Gujarati
- પુષ્કળ
- plenty in Odia
- ବିଭୂତି bibhuti
- plenty in Sanskrit
- आयात āyāta
- plenty in Arabic
- كَثِير kaṯīr
Examples of plenty in a sentence
- 'You've forgotten you gave me your money to look after before we left the house.' 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 100:
- Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the...
Synonyms of plenty
Forms of plenty
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | plenties |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more plenty |
| superlative | most plenty |
Origin of plenty
From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.
Words formed from plenty
- aplenty
- Bay of Plenty
- horn of plenty
- in plenty
- land of plenty
- Lower Plenty
- plenteous
- plentiful
- plentily
- plentiness
- plenty as blackberries
- plenty to go around
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there are plenty more pebbles on the beach
- there are plenty of fish in the sea
- there are plenty of pebbles on the beach
Phrases with plenty
Words that rhyme with plenty
Questions about plenty
- What does plenty mean?
- Plenty means a more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
- What is plenty in Hindi?
- Plenty in Hindi is पर्याप्त (paryāpt). See Plenty meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use plenty in a sentence?
- 'You've forgotten you gave me your money to look after before we left the house.' 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.
- What part of speech is plenty?
- Plenty can be a noun, a pronoun, an adverb or a determiner.
- How do you pronounce plenty?
- Plenty is pronounced /ˈplɛnti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of plenty?
- The plural of plenty is plenties.
Words near plenty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plenty (page history and authors); Plenty (page history and authors); plenty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کثرت (Urdu) (page history and authors); plenty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పెంపు (Telugu) (page history and authors); plenty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plenty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بہتیرا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); plenty (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ବିଭୂତି (Odia) (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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