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plenitude

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of plenitude

1 a considerable amount
  • There's a plenitude of natural beauty in the state.
Synonyms of plenitude

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, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to plenitude

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 plenitude

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

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 plenitude

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
  • a plenitude of food for the dinner party
Synonyms of plenitude

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

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 plenitude

embarrassment of riches
Near Antonyms of plenitude

paucity, poverty, scarcity

barrenness, infertility, sterility
Antonyms of plenitude

deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, undersupply

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