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| Main Entry: | |
| 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
| Main Entry: | satiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fullness |
| Synonyms: | adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, engorgement, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
| Main Entry: | self-regard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pride |
| Synonyms: | amour-propre, delight, dignity, ego, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face, gratification, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, pridefulness, repletion, satisfaction, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-glorification, self-love, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-trust, self-worth, sufficiency |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Pride. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., pride; haughtiness; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance (assumption)., proud man, highflier; fine gentleman, fine lady.
-verbs
be proud; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, "bear like the Turk no rival near the throne" [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs (assume); boast., pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself (vanity).
-adjectives
dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned., haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride., supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing., stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait- laced; prim (affected)., on one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur.
-adverbs
with head erect.
-phrases
odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | humility |
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