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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity |
| Synonyms: | aplenty, bags, bulk, bundle, chunk, expanse, extent, flock, gob, heap, hunk, jillion, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, mess*, mint, mucho, number, oodles*, pack, passel, peck, pile, scads, score, slat, slew, supply, ton, volume, whopper |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | copious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | a mess of, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, coming out of ears, crawling with, extensive, exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix, replete, rich, superabundant, thick with, verbose, wordy |
| Antonyms: | lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting |
| Main Entry: | generous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentiful |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, full, galore, handsome, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, no end, no end in sight, overflowing, plenteous, rich, stinking with, unstinting, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | depleted, wanting |
| Main Entry: | liberal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, profuse |
| Synonyms: | ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, galore, generous, handsome, lavish, munificent, no end, plentiful, plenty, rich |
| Antonyms: | lacking, poor, wanting |
| Main Entry: | profuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, excessive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fulsome, galore, generous, immoderate, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, openhanded, opulent, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profusive, prolific, riotous, sumptuous, superfluous, swarming, teeming, thick with, unstinting |
| Antonyms: | lacking, sparse, wanting |
| Main Entry: | sufficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enough, adequate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, agreeable, all right*, ample, aplenty, appreciate, comfortable, commensurable, commensurate, common, competent, copious, decent, due, galore, pleasing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, proportionate, satisfactory, sufficing, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unobjectionable |
| Notes: | adequate tends toward the qualitative and sufficient toward the quantitative, so adequate is 'suitable to something' and sufficient is 'enough for something' |
| Antonyms: | deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, poor, wanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | galore |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in abundance |
| Synonyms: | abounding, aplenty, in profusion, in quantity, plentiful |
| Main Entry: | plenitudinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, full, galore, handsome, heavy*, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, no end in sight, no end, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, rich, stinking with, substantial, unstinting, voluminous, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plenteous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, full, galore, handsome, heavy*, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, no end in sight, no end, overflowing, plenitudinous, plentiful, rich, stinking with, substantial, unstinting, voluminous, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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