plethoranoun [ S ]
uk/ˈpleθ.ər.ə/us/ˈpleθ.ɚ.ə/formalC2 a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with:
There's a plethora of books about the royal family.
The plethora of regulations is both contradictory and confusing.
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Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- play gooseberry idiom
- plenty
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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