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abundance

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of abundance

1 a considerable amount
  • an abundance of flowers for the wedding
  • I grew up with an abundance of cousins.
Synonyms of abundance

barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to abundance

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with abundance

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of abundance

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of abundance

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace
2 an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs
  • We have an abundance of food, so eat as much as you want.
Synonyms of abundance

cornucopia, feast, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, plethora, superabundance, wealth
Words Related to abundance

adequacy, competence, competency, sufficiency

ampleness, amplitude, liberality

excess, overdose, overflow, overkill, oversupply, redundancy, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit, surplus

copiousness, fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, opulence, richness

lavishness, luxuriance
Phrases Synonymous with abundance

embarrassment of riches
Near Antonyms of abundance

paucity, poverty, scarcity

barrenness, infertility, sterility
Antonyms of abundance

deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, undersupply

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