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copiousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance |
| Synonyms: | affluence, amplitude, bountifulness, bounty, cornucopia, exuberance, fullness, horn of plenty, lavishness, luxuriance, plentifulness, plenty, richness, superabundance |
| Antonyms: | lack, need, poorness, rareness, scarcity, want |
| Main Entry: | roll |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cylindrical object |
| Synonyms: | ball, barrel, bobbin, cartouche, coil, cone, convolution, cornucopia, cylinder, fold, reel, rundle, scroll, shell, spiral, spool, trundle, volute, wheel, whorl |
| Main Entry: | wealth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money, resources |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, assets, belongings, bounty, cache, capital, cash, clover, commodities, copiousness, cornucopia, dough, estate, fortune, funds, gold, goods, hoard, holdings, lap of luxury, long green, lucre, luxuriance, luxury, means, opulence, pelf, plenitude, plenty, possessions, profusion, property, prosperity, prosperousness, revenue, riches, richness, security, stocks and bonds, store, substance, substantiality, treasure, velvet*, worth |
| Antonyms: | lack, need, poverty, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horn of plenty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plentiful resource |
| Synonyms: | bottomless well, cornucopia, endless supply, horn of Amalthea |
| Main Entry: | overflowing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overflow |
| Synonyms: | copiousness, cornucopia, deluge, exuberance, freshet, inundation, profusion, redundance, redundancy, spate, spillway, superabundance |
| 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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| Concept: | [Repeated and protracted sounds] Roll. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
roll; drumming; berloque, bombination, rumbling; tattoo; dingdong; tantara; rataplan; whirr; ratatat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter, charivari, racket; cuckoo; repetition; peal of bells, devil's tattoo; reverberation.
-verbs
roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate., hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat., drum in the ear, din in the ear.
-adjectives
rolling; monotonous (repeated); like a bee in a bottle.
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| Concept: | Wealth. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence (sufficiency); solvency., provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property; command of money., income; capital, money; round sum (treasure); mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi., long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse; purse of Fortunatus; embarras de richesses., pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes., rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.
-verbs
be rich; roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth, wallow in riches., afford, well afford; command money, command a sum; make both ends meet, hold one's head above water., become rich; fill one's pocket (treasury) [more]; feather one's nest, make a fortune; make money (acquire)., enrich, imburse., worship Mammon, worship the golden calf.
-adjectives
wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; well, well provided for., made of money; rich as Croesus; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth., flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin; in funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious, out of debt, all straight.
-phrases
one's ship coming in.
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| Antonyms: | poverty |
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