abundant

[uh-buhn-duhnt] / əˈbʌn dənt /

ADJECTIVE

plentiful, large in number

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ample bountiful copious generous heavy rich sufficient

WEAK

abounding bounteous crawling with cup runs over with eco-rich exuberant filled full lavish liberal lousy with luxuriant mucho no end of overflowing plate is full of plenteous plenty profuse rolling in stinking with teeming

Antonyms

STRONGEST

depleted insufficient lacking meager needy poor wanting

WEAK

rare scarce sparse

Example Sentences

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Associate Professor Fan said: "After years of fieldwork, we finally found several sites with the right conditions where animal fossils are preserved together with the abundant algae."

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Venture capital money is abundant, and every minute feels precious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

For the first time in more than 80 years, the fish swam in their ancestral river, where they had once been abundant.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

As designers, we’ve paid abundant attention to user frustration over the years but have ignored the frustrations that come from a smooth and too-easy world.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Their confinement to Africa, along with abundant fossil evidence, indicates that the earliest stages of human evolution were also played out in Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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