| 单词 | ample |
| 释义 | ample (once / 251 pages) adj Ample describes an abundance of something. An ample supply of apple muffins at the bake sale is a good thing, as is ample legroom in your new van, but you probably don't want your ample waistline spilling over the top of your jeans. Like amplify (crank up the volume), ample is from the Latin word amplus, meaning "large or spacious" and has the word plus in it, like plus-sized models. Ample can be enough or even too much of something. It's great when there's ample parking or water for the hike, but there are things that some people don't want more of, like extra pounds. It's a cheeky insult to tell someone he or she has ample thighs, but we'd all be happy if we had ample time and money. WORD FAMILYample: ampleness, ampler, amplest, amply USAGE EXAMPLESIn our state, a free, ample and equitable education is a birthright, a civil right and our state’s paramount duty. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) It is fairly new, with 3,500 square feet and an ample backyard for their young son, they said. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) In some ways, he’s carried Miami on his ample shoulders into the playoffs with a 10-5 record and nine wins in its last 10 outings. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1adj more than enough in size or scope or capacity had ample food for the party an ample supply Syn|Ant abundant present in great quantity full, goodhaving the normally expected amount generousmore than adequate full, wide, wide-cuthaving ample fabric sufficientof a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent scarcedeficient in quantity or number compared with the demand bare, scanty, sparelacking in amplitude or quantity exiguousextremely scanty hand-to-mouthproviding only bare essentials hardscrabblebarely satisfying a lower standard measly, miserable, paltrycontemptibly small in amount minimal, minimumthe least possible deficient, insufficientof a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement 2adj affording an abundant supply had ample food for the party Syn copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich abundant present in great quantity 3adj fairly large an ample waistline of ample proportions Syn sizable, sizeable big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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