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plateful

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Synonyms & Antonyms of plateful

a considerable amount

a degree in that field would give you a plateful of possibilities for a career

Synonyms for plateful

abundance,
barrel,
basketful,
boatload,
bucket,
bunch,
bundle,
bushel,
carload,
chunk,
deal,
dozen,
fistful,
gobs,
good deal,
heap,
hundred,
lashings
(also lashins)
[chiefly British],
loads,
lot,
mass,
mess,
mountain,
much,
multiplicity,
myriad,
oodles,
pack,
passel,
peck,
pile,
plenitude,
plentitude,
plenty,
pot,
potful,
profusion,
quantity,
raft,
reams,
scads,
sheaf,
shipload,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
store,
ton,
truckload,
volume,
wad,
wealth,
yard

Words Related to plateful

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

gazillion,
jillion,
kazillion,
million,
thousands,
trillion,
zillion

Phrases Synonymous with plateful

all kinds (of),
quite a bit

Near Antonyms for plateful

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

smatter,
smattering

dash,
drop,
morsel,
shot

piece,
portion,
section

absence,
dearth,
famine,
lack,
paucity,
poverty,
scarceness,
scarcity,
shortage,
undersupply,
want

deficiency,
deficit,
inadequacy,
insufficiency,
meagerness,
scantiness,
scantness,
skimpiness

Antonyms for plateful

ace,
bit,
dab,
dram,
driblet,
glimmer,
handful,
hint,
lick,
little,
mite,
mouthful,
nip,
ounce,
peanuts,
pinch,
pittance,
scruple,
shade,
shadow,
smidgen
(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
speck,
spot,
sprinkle,
sprinkling,
strain,
streak,
suspicion,
tad,
taste,
touch,
trace

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