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plenty

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of plenty

being more than enough without being excessive
  • We've picked plenty blueberries, so there'll be some left over after we make the pie.
Synonyms of plenty

abundant, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable, galore, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful
Words Related to plenty

extra, supernumerary, surplus

abounding, blooming, overflowing, plump, replete, rich, rife, teeming, wealthy

adequate, enough, sufficient

fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, luxuriant, prodigal, prolific

copious, fulsome, lavish, profuse
Phrases Synonymous with plenty

all kinds of, thick on the ground
Near Antonyms of plenty

deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting

meager (or meagre), niggardly, stingy

skimpy

least, minimum

light, slight, small

barren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive
Antonyms of plenty

bare, minimal, scant, spare

plenty

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of plenty

1 an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs
  • You'll have plenty of time to make your connecting flight.
Synonyms of plenty

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

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 plenty

embarrassment of riches
Near Antonyms of plenty

paucity, poverty, scarcity

barrenness, infertility, sterility
Antonyms of plenty

deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, undersupply
2 a considerable amount
  • Plenty of people showed up.
Synonyms of plenty

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

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 plenty

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

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 plenty

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

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