replete
/rɪˈpliːt
/adjective [predicative]
1Filled or well-supplied with something: sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death...
- The combination of the flood of people hitting the pit, and the absence of a barrier, resulted in an insane dance floor, replete with gratuitous crowd surfing and lost brain cells aplenty.
- Zelenka's music is always very pleasant and one must take particular notice of his exquisite ‘Salve Regina’, a truly exquisite work that is brimful and replete with melodies and fugal counterpoint.
- What's documented here is that personal warfare, replete with bursting explosions and a splattering of machine-gun notes.
Synonyms
filled, full, well stocked, well supplied, well provided, crammed, crowded, packed, jammed, stuffed, teeming, overflowing, bursting, brimful, brimming, loaded, overloaded, thick, solid, charged, abounding
informal jam-packed, chock-a-block, chock-full, chocker
1.1Very full of or sated by food: I went out into the sun-drenched streets again, replete and relaxed...
- The full effects of public repleteness are not yet known, but new studies show that it can lead not only to sort-of sleepiness and lethargy but also to slight nausea and, in a majority of subjects, not being able to eat another thing.
Synonyms
well fed, sated, satiated, full, full up, full to bursting, satisfied;
glutted, gorged
informal stuffed
archaic satiate, surfeited
Derivatives
repleteness
repletion
- That's a feminine accomplishment: a feat of memory, a managed repletion or resplendence.
- He harvested the punters at book-signing time, with a look of airy repletion.
- With progressively more disease states manifesting GSH deficiency, repletion is a viable preventive, therapeutic, and anti-aging strategy.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French replet(e) or Latin repletus 'filled up', past participle of replere, from re- 'back, again' + plere 'fill'.
Rhymes
- indistinguishability
- indistinguishable
- indistinguishableness
- indistinguishably
- indite
- indium
- individ
- individ.
- individual
- individual constant
- individual enterprise
- individualic
- individualise
- individualism
- individualist
- individualistic
- individualistically
- individuality
- individualization
- individualize
- individualizer
- individualizingly
- individually
- individualness
- individual-psychological