| 单词 | plenty |
| 释义 | plenty (once / 92 pages) nadv If you've eaten your fill at a big meal, you know by your full stomach that you have had plenty. In fact, if you had more than plenty, you might even get the feeling you've had too much! The word plenty usually refers to more than just enough, and this comes, via Middle French plenté, from the Latin word plēnitās, "fullness," from plenus, "full, complete." The meaning is apparent in the following quote by English novelist George Eliot: "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music." May you have plenty of what you need, and some of what you want as well. WORD FAMILYplenty: plenteous, plenties, plentiful+/plenteous: plenteously, plenteousness/plentiful: plentifuler, plentifully, plentifulness USAGE EXAMPLESNow I am sure that plenty of you right now are thinking: What an idiotic column. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Blatant body checking is banned, but there is plenty of contact. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Now that Trump is the President-elect, plenty of prominent conservatives are hoping that he will govern as a reliably conservative Republican. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a full supply there was plenty of food for everyone Syn|Hyper plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude abundance, copiousness, teemingness the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply 2n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent it must have cost plenty Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude 3adv as much as necessary "(` plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks Syn enough |
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