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plentitude

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of plentitude

1 a considerable amount
  • That new baby is in for a plentitude of love.
Synonyms of plentitude

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

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 plentitude

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

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 plentitude

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 plentitude of lumber for the current housing market
Synonyms of plentitude

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

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 plentitude

embarrassment of riches
Near Antonyms of plentitude

paucity, poverty, scarcity

barrenness, infertility, sterility
Antonyms of plentitude

deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, undersupply

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