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# plentiful

adjective (plentiful, more plentiful, most plentiful)

«plentiful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Plentiful means there is a lot of something, more than enough. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and geography it describes food, water or animals that are easy to find; in stories it shows good times (a plentiful harvest). Phrases: plentiful supply, plentiful food.

### Examples

- Apples were plentiful in the autumn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x1)
- Fish are plentiful in this river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x2)
- There was a plentiful supply of water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x3)
- In a good year, food is plentiful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x4)
- Rabbits are plentiful in the fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x5)
- Sunshine is plentiful in Australia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x6)
- A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/#x7)

### Note

Spelling: plenty → plentiful (y changes to i, and one l at the end). Opposite: scarce. «Plentiful» means «a lot» but no exact number; maths problems will give the number.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plentiful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plentiful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plentiful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/plentiful.html) on Mova free.