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more numerous

ADJECTIVE

many, abundant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

big diverse great large plentiful various

WEAK

copious infinite legion lousy with multifarious multitudinal multitudinous populous profuse rife scads several sundry thick umpteen voluminous zillion

Antonyms

STRONGEST

little miniature similar small tiny uniform unimportant

WEAK

deficient few lacking

Example Sentences

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“Researchers track these whales daily, but we can scale their impact by crowdsourcing data from the many more numerous commercial and recreational boats, and building a centralized alert system,” Liccardo said in a release.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Sunday's showers look more numerous with generally more cloud and wind but therefore less frost.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

More complex direct indexing, offered by robo-advisors as well as most traditional brokerage firms, greatly increases the possibilities because individual stocks are both more numerous and volatile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

When it worked, they were 100 times more numerous.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 28, 2025

With every mile she traveled now, the oil drums became more and more numerous and the tracks of the wolverine more and more scarce.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George