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| Main Entry: | ample |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | more than necessary, sufficient |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, big, bountiful, broad, capacious, commodious, copious, enough, expansive, extensive, full, galore, generous, great, heavy, large, lavish, liberal, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, roomy, spacious, spare, substantial, unrestricted, voluminous, wide, bounteous, no end, plenteous |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, meager, not enough |
| Main Entry: | abundant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentiful, large in number |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bountiful, copious, eco-rich, exuberant, filled, full, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, overflowing, plenty, profuse, rich, sufficient, teeming, bounteous, crawling with, cup runs over with, lousy with, mucho, no end of, plate is full of, plenteous, rolling in, stinking with |
| Antonyms: | lacking, rare, scarce, sparse |
| Main Entry: | bountiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, copious, dime a dozen, exuberant, free, galore*, generous, handsome, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, magnanimous, munificent, plentiful, plenty, prolific, unsparing, aplenty, bounteous, crawling with, no end of, plenteous, stink with |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, sparse, wanting, meagre |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | buxom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bosomy |
| Synonyms: | ample, built, chubby, comely, curvaceous, healthy, hearty, lusty, plump, robust, shapely, voluptuous, well-made, well-rounded, busty, curvy, full-bosomed, full-figured, stacked, well-proportioned, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | flat, petite, small |
| Main Entry: | chubby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slightly fat |
| Synonyms: | ample, big, buxom, chunky, fatty, flabby, fleshy, hefty, husky, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly*, rotund, round, stout, tubby, bearish, butterball, full-figured, pleasingly plump, plumpish, podgy, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slim, thin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | copious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, bountiful, extensive, exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix, replete, rich, verbose, wordy, a mess of, alive with, aplenty, bounteous, coming out of ears, crawling with, no end, plenteous, superabundant, thick with |
| Antonyms: | lacking, meager, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting, needing |
| Main Entry: | enough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundant, acceptable, adequate, ample, bountiful, comfortable, competent, complete, copious, decent, fed up*, full, last straw*, lavish, plentiful, replete, satisfactory, satisfying, sufficient, suitable, unlimited, all right already, bellyful, bounteous, enough already, had it, plenteous, sick and tired of, sufficing, up to here |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, insufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity |
| Synonyms: | ample, enough, padding, plenty, stuffing, sufficiency, sufficient, all one wants, filler, satiety |
| Antonyms: | emptiness |
| Main Entry: | fleshy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | ample, beefy*, brawny, chubby*, chunky*, corpulent, fat, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, meaty*, obese, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy*, stout, tubby*, weighty, adipose, pulpy, sarcous, well-padded, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | large |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, blimp*, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, considerable, copious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, full, generous, giant, gigantic, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hefty, huge, humongous*, immeasurable, immense, jumbo*, liberal, massive, monumental, mountainous, plentiful, populous, roomy, sizable, spacious, stupendous, substantial, super, sweeping, tidy, vast, voluminous, whopping*, wide, barn door, booming, goodly, thumping |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plentiful, prodigal, productive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, teeming, thriving, plenteous, profusive, superabundant |
| Notes: | luxuriant indicates profusion while luxurious means sumptuous and expensive |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundant, adequate, ample, complete, considerable, copious, countless, endless, enough, everywhere, extravagant, full, galore, generous, great, immeasurable, lavish, many, plentiful, profuse, satisfying, scads*, sizable, substantial, sufficient, voluminous, a lot of, heaps, jam-packed, loads, lotsa, mega, mucho, no end, plenteous, very many |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overweight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavier than average |
| Synonyms: | ample, bulky, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, huge, massive, obese, plump, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout, weighty, outsize, overfed, overstuffed, upholstered |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bountiful, chock-full*, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superfluous, swimming, teeming, bounteous, bumper, lousy with, plenteous, superabundant, swarming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, rare, scarce, wanting, needing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bulky, fat |
| Synonyms: | ample, beefy*, broad, burly, corpulent, fleshy, heavy, hefty, husky, large, obese, overweight, plump, rotund, stout, avoirdupois |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, thin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretty |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | considerable; somewhat |
| Synonyms: | ample, fairly, kind of, large, moderately, more or less, much, notable, quite, rather, reasonably, sizable, some, something, sort of, a little, pretty much, tolerably |
| Main Entry: | profuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, excessive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bountiful, copious, dime a dozen, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fulsome, galore, generous, immoderate, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, openhanded, opulent, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, prolific, riotous, sumptuous, superfluous, teeming, alive with, aplenty, bounteous, crawling with, no end, profusive, swarming, thick with, unstinting |
| Antonyms: | lacking, sparse, wanting |
| Main Entry: | roomy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having ample space |
| Synonyms: | ample, broad, capacious, commodious, extensive, generous, large, sizable, spacious, wide |
| Antonyms: | cramped, narrow, cluttered |
| Main Entry: | satisfactory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acceptable, sufficient |
| Synonyms: | adequate, all right, ample, average, cogent, comfortable, competent, cool*, decent, enough, fair, good, gratifying, groovy*, passable, peachy*, pleasing, satisfying, solid, sound, suitable, tolerable, unexceptional, valid, A-OK, appeasing, assuaging, assuasive, delighting, fulfilling, good enough, sufficing, up to snuff |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, unfit, unsatisfactory, unsuitable |
* = 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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