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plethoric
adjective as in excessive
Strongest matches
adjective as in full
Strong matches
adjective as in overabundant
Weak matches
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overboard
- overkill
- overmuch
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
adjective as in overmuch
Weak matches
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- overabundant
- overboard
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- stratospheric
- superabundant
- superfluous
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
Example Sentences
The third figure—strikingly unlike the other two—was a man of fifty or thereabouts, short and plethoric.
The suppression has a plethoric effect, and must be removed by the evacuation; therefore we begin with bleeding.
How it came to impose itself on the plethoric patriotism of the Morning Post is a mystery which may be worth investigating.
Some practitioners recommend emetics, and bleeding if the patient be of a full plethoric habit.
It may also be caused by a plethoric or too full habit, the lungs then being in reality congested.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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