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abundance - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | abundance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great amount or supply |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bounty, copiousness, fortune, myriad, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, prosperity, riches, thriving, wealth, ampleness, plenitude, prosperousness |
| Antonyms: | dearth, deficiency, inadequacy, lack |
| Main Entry: | affluence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth |
| Synonyms: | abundance, fortune, luxury, opulence, plenty, prosperity, riches, wealthiness |
| Main Entry: | efficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adeptness, effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, abundance, adaptability, address, adequacy, capability, competence, completeness, economy, efficacy, energy, expertise, facility, faculty, know-how, performance, potency, power, productivity, proficiency, prowess, quantity, readiness, response, skill, suitability, talent, capableness, competency, effectualness, powerfulness, productiveness, resourcefulness, skillfulness, suitableness, thoroughness |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, impotence, inability, incompetence, inefficiency, weakness, ineffectiveness |
| Main Entry: | enough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, adequacy, competence, sufficiency, sufficient, ample supply, ampleness, plenitude, right amount |
| Antonyms: | inadequacy, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | fertility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | readiness to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundance, copiousness, fecundity, potency, pregnancy, productivity, puberty, richness, virility, feracity, fruitfulness, generative capacity, gravidity, luxuriance, plentifulness, productiveness, prolificacy, prolificity, pubescence, uberty |
| Antonyms: | emptiness, infertility, sterility, aridity, childlessness |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, glut, inundation, multitude, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, wave, alluvion, drencher, freshet, niagara, outgushing, tsunami |
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, iteration, number, oscillation, persistence, prevalence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm, frequentness, periodicity, pulsation, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, deposit, fullness, gathering, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, total, volume, whole, a lot, amassment, congeries, gobs, great deal, million, scad, ton, trillion |
| Antonyms: | bit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stockpile |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, backlog, cache, collection, conglomeration, fund, garner, heap, inventory, mass, nest egg*, pile, reserve, reservoir, riches, stock, store, supply, treasure, wealth, amassment, cumulation, treasure-trove, trove |
| Antonyms: | debt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deposit, supply |
| Synonyms: | abundance, bed, bonanza, ditch, excavation, field, fountain, fund, gold mine, hoard, lode, pit, quarry, reserve, shaft, source, spring, stock, store, treasury, trench, vein, wealth, well, wellspring, fount, treasure trove |
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, cliff, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, stack, butte, crag, sierra, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a great deal |
| Synonyms: | abundance, barrel, breadth, completeness, copiousness, excess, exuberance, fullness, lots*, lump, mass, mess*, mountain, oodles*, pack, peck, pile, plenty, plethora, profuseness, riches, scads*, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, volume, wealth, a lot, all kinds of, amplitude, appreciable amount, gobs, great quantity, heaps, loads, multiplicity, overage, oversupply, plentifulness, thousands, tons, very much |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oodles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | abundance, lots, many, masses, plenty, scads*, billions, gobs, heaps, large number, loads, millions, piles, thousands, tons, zillions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opulence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, belongings, excess, fortune, goods, lavishness, luxury, means, money, property, prosperity, riches, substance, lap of luxury, plenitude, possessions, prosperousness, stocks and bonds, substantiality |
| Main Entry: | productivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | output, work rate |
| Synonyms: | abundance, capacity, fecundity, fertility, mass production, potency, production, richness, yield, productiveness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, unproductivity |
| Main Entry: | prosperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affluence, good fortune |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accomplishment, advantage, arrival, bed of roses*, benefit, boom, do, ease*, easy street*, exorbitance, expansion, flying colors*, fortune, good, gravy train*, growth, increase, inflation, interest, luxury, opulence, plenty, riches, success, thriving, velvet, victory, wealth, welfare, well-being, clover, good times, high on the hog, life of luxury, plenteousness, prosperousness, successfulness, the good life |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss, poorness, poverty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quantity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | number or amount |
| Synonyms: | abundance, aggregate, allotment, batch, body, budget, bulk, capacity, deal, expanse, extent, figure, greatness, length, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, multitude, part, pile, portion, profusion, quota, size, sum, total, variety, volume, amplitude |
| Main Entry: | riches |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money and possessions |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, assets, fortune, gold, means, opulence, plenty, property, resources, richness, substance, treasure, wealth, worth, clover, lap of luxury |
| Antonyms: | debt |
| Main Entry: | sea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large body of water; large mass |
| Synonyms: | Davy Jones's locker, abundance, blue*, bounding main, brine, briny deep, briny*, deep, drink*, expanse, lake, main, multitude, number, ocean, plethora, pond, profusion, sheet, splash*, surf, swell, waves |
| Antonyms: | land |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prized possession or entity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, apple of one's eye, cache, capital, cash, catch*, darling, find, fortune, funds, gem, gold, hoard, jewel, money, nest egg*, nonpareil, paragon, pearl*, pile*, plum*, pride and joy, prize, reserve, riches, richness, store, treasure trove, valuable, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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