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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, barn door, blimp, booming, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, considerable, copious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, full, generous, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hefty, huge, humongous*, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, liberal, massive, monumental, mountainous, plentiful, populous, roomy, sizable, spacious, stupendous, substantial, super, sweeping, thumping, tidy, vast, voluminous, whopping, wide |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, productive, profusive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, superabundant, teeming, thriving |
| Notes: | luxuriant indicates profusion while luxurious means sumptuous and expensive |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | needless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnecessary, groundless |
| Synonyms: | causeless, dispensable, excessive, expendable, gratuitous, inessential, nonessential, pointless, redundant, superfluous, uncalled-for, undesired, unrequired, unwanted, useless |
| Antonyms: | grounded, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | nonessential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not needed or important |
| Synonyms: | deadwood, dispensable, excess baggage, excessive, expendable, extraneous, inessential, insignificant, peripheral, petty, superfluous, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary |
| Antonyms: | essential, important, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | onerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult; requiring hard labor |
| Synonyms: | arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard*, harsh, headache, heavy*, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, overtaxing, painful, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty |
| Antonyms: | common, easy, light, trivial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outrageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond reasonable limits |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, crazy*, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, last straw, offensive, out of bounds, preposterous, scandalous, shocking, steep*, too much*, uncivilized, unconscionable, unreasonable |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, mild, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, chock-full, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lousy with, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superabundant, superfluous, swarming, swimming, teeming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, needing, rare, scarce, wanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preposterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculous, bizarre |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, crazy, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fantastic, far-out, foolish, harebrained, impossible, incredible, insane, irrational, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, out of the question, outrageous, senseless, shocking, silly, stupid, taking the cake, thick*, too much*, unbelievable, unreasonable, unthinkable, unusual, wacky*, wild |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prodigal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasteful |
| Synonyms: | dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton |
| Antonyms: | careful, thrifty |
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