| 单词 | plenty |
| 释义 | plenty[ plen-tee ] / ˈplɛn ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR plenty ON THESAURUS.COM noun, plural plen·ties.a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time. the state or quality of being plentiful; abundance: resources in plenty. an abundance, as of goods or luxuries, or a time of such abundance: the plenty of a rich harvest; the plenty that comes with peace. adjectiveexisting in ample quantity or number; plentiful; abundant: Food is never too plenty in the area. more than sufficient; ample: That helping is plenty for me. adverbInformal. fully; quite: plenty good enough. Origin of plentyFirst recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English plente, from Old French; replacing Middle English plenteth, from Old French plented, plentet, from Latin plēnitāt- (stem of plēnitās) “fullness.” See plenum, -ity SYNONYMS FOR plenty2 plenteousness, copiousness, luxuriance, affluence. SEE SYNONYMS FOR plenty ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for plenty2. Plenty, abundance, profusion refer to a large quantity or supply. Plenty suggests a supply that is fully adequate to any demands: plenty of money. Abundance implies a great plenty, an ample and generous oversupply: an abundance of rain. Profusion applies to such a lavish and excessive abundance as often suggests extravagance or prodigality: luxuries in great profusion. usage note for plentyThe construction plenty of is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of plenty preceding a noun, without an intervening of, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed. It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in the mid-19th century, plenty is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech. OTHER WORDS FROM plentyo·ver·plen·ty, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH plentyabundance, plenty , profusion (see synonym study at the current entry)Words nearby plentyplenitude, plenitudinous, pleno jure, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenum, plenum system, plenum ventilation, pleo-, pleochroic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for plentyBritish Dictionary definitions for plenty (1 of 2)plenty / (ˈplɛntɪ) / noun plural -ties(often foll by of) a great number, amount, or quantity; lotsplenty of time; there are plenty of cars on display here generous or ample supplies of wealth, produce, or resourcesthe age of plenty in plenty existing in abundancefood in plenty determiner
adverbnot standard, mainly US (intensifier)he was plenty mad informal more than adequately; abundantlythe water's plenty hot enough Word Origin for plentyC13: from Old French plenté, from Late Latin plēnitās fullness, from Latin plēnus full British Dictionary definitions for plenty (2 of 2)Plenty / (ˈplɛntɪ) / nounBay of Plenty a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with plentyplenty see under not the only fish in the sea. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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