replete
/ɹɪˈpliːt/
replete adjective: abounding, amply provided.
Adjective
replete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)
- Abounding, amply provided.
- A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.
- A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
His subjects with delight obey:
His tail was beauteous to behold,
Replete with goodly eyes and gold.1730, Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark
- Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
- And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]1901, Bret Harte, “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”, in Under the Redwoods
- In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]1913, Jack London, “chapter15”, in The Valley of the Moon
- Synonyms:
- stuffed
- Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
Noun
replete (plural repletes)
- A honeypot ant.
Verb
replete (third-person singular simple present repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)
- To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.
replete meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
replete in Tamil
- அதிகமாக, கூடுதல் எண்ணிக்கையில்
replete in Urdu
- جی بھر کر, لبالب, پورا
replete in Bengali
- পরিপূর্ণ, ঠাসা
replete in Malayalam
- തിങ്ങി വിങ്ങിയ, ധാരാള, തിന്നുനിറഞ്ഞ
More languagesFewer languages
- replete in Kannada
- ತುಂಬಿದ, ಭರಿತ, ಸಂಪೂರಿತ, ಪರಿಪ್ಲುತ
Examples of replete in a sentence
- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.1759, Samuel Johnson, “chapter 12”, in Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia:
- "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […]...
- History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Seneca”, in Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers:
Synonyms of replete
Forms of replete
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more replete |
| superlative | most replete |
| Noun | |
| plural | repletes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | repletes |
| present participle | repleting |
| past participle | repleted |
| past | repleted |
Origin of replete
From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
Words formed from replete
Words that rhyme with replete
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
- keet
Questions about replete
- What does replete mean?
- Replete means abounding, amply provided.
- What is replete in Tamil?
- Replete in Tamil is அதிகமாக, கூடுதல் எண்ணிக்கையில். See Replete meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use replete in a sentence?
- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
- What part of speech is replete?
- Replete can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce replete?
- Replete is pronounced /ɹɪˈpliːt/.
Words near replete in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: replete (page history and authors); replete (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); replete (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); replete (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); replete (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); replete (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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