Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
| Antonyms: | few, lack, little, need, rarity, scarcity, want |
| Main Entry: | barrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion of something |
| Synonyms: | assault, attack, blast, bombardment, burst, deluge, hail, mass, onslaught, plethora, rain, shower, storm, stream, surge, torrent |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amount, share |
| Synonyms: | abundance, degree, distribution, extent, plenty, plethora, portion, quantity, shake, superabundance, transaction |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overweight, adipose tissue |
| Synonyms: | blubber, bulk, cellulite, corpulence, excess, fatness, flab, flesh, grease, lard, obesity, overabundance, overflow, paunch, plethora, suet, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, tallow |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a great deal |
| Synonyms: | a lot, abundance, all kinds of, amplitude, appreciable amount, barrel, breadth, completeness, copiousness, excess, exuberance, fullness, gobs, great quantity, heaps, loads, lots*, lump, mass, mess*, mountain, multiplicity, oodles*, overage, oversupply, pack, peck, pile, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, profuseness, riches, scads, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, thousands, tons, very much, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overabundance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | embarrassment of riches, glut, nimiety, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, too much* |
| Antonyms: | lack, need, scarcity, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flood, inundation |
| Synonyms: | advance, cataclysm, cataract, congestion, deluge, discharge, encroachment, enforcement, engorgement, excess, exuberance, flash flood, flooding, infringement, niagara, overabundance, overcrowding, overkill, overmuch, overproduction, plethora, pour, propulsion, push, redundancy, spate, spill, spillover, submergence, submersion, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, torrent |
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