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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity |
| Synonyms: | barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent |
| Notes: | avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downpour, flood of something |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, cataract, drencher, flux, inundation, niagara, overflowing, overrunning, pour, rush, spate, torrent |
| Main Entry: | landslide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | landslip |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, earthfall, mudslide, rockslide, snowslide |
| Notes: | avalanche means literally 'a gulp, something swallowed' from French avaler 'to swallow' and Italian lava 'torrent' and refers to snow, rocks, or other debris coming down a mountainside - whereas a landslide is an entire mountainside coming down |
| Main Entry: | onrush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rush |
| Synonyms: | attack, avalanche, blitz, charge, dash, deluge, flood, flow, flux, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, onslaught, push, race, scramble, stampede, storm, stream, surge, swiftness |
| Main Entry: | plenty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | much, abundance |
| Synonyms: | affluence, avalanche, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full') |
| Antonyms: | few, lack, little, need, scarcity, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plenitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenteousness, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full') |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plenteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenitude, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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