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plentyful

plentyful is the obsolete form of plentiful.

Meaning of plentiful

Adjective

plentiful (comparative plentifuller or plentifuler or more plentiful, superlative plentifullest or plentifulest or most plentiful)

  1. Existing in large number or ample amount.
    • a plentiful harvest
  2. Yielding abundance; fruitful.
    • Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
  3. (obsolete) Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
    • He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Expense”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

Forms of plentyful

comparativemore plentyful
superlativemost plentyful

Questions about plentyful

What is plentyful the obsolete form of?
Plentyful is the obsolete form of plentiful.

Words near plentyful in the dictionary

  1. plenty
  2. plenty as blackberries
  3. plenty to go around
  4. plenty's horn
  5. plentya
  6. plentyful
  7. Plentywood
  8. plenum
  9. plenum chamber
  10. plenum chambers
  11. plenums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plentyful (page history and authors); plentiful (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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