| 单词 | plenty |
| 释义 | plenty /plen"tee/, n. , pl. plenties, adj. , adv. n. 1. a full or abundant supply or amount: There is plenty of time. 2. the state or quality of being plentiful; abundance: resources in plenty. 3. an abundance, as of goods or luxuries, or a time of such abundance: the plenty of a rich harvest; the plenty that comes with peace. adj. 4. existing in ample quantity or number; plentiful; abundant: Food is never too plenty in the area. 5. more than sufficient; ample: That helping is plenty for me. adv. 6. Informal. fully; quite: plenty good enough. [1175-1225; ME plente < OF; r. ME plenteth < OF plented, plentet < L plenitat- (s. of plenitas) fullness. See PLENUM, -ITY] Syn. 2. plenteousness, copiousness, luxuriance, affluence. PLENTY, ABUNDANCE, PROFUSION refer to a large quantity or supply. PLENTY suggests a supply that is fully adequate to any demands: plenty of money. ABUNDANCE implies a great plenty, an ample and generous oversupply: an abundance of rain. PROFUSION applies to such a lavish and excessive abundance as often suggests extravagance or prodigality: luxuries in great profusion. Usage. The construction PLENTY OF is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of PLENTY preceding a noun, without an intervening OF, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed. It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in the mid-19th century, PLENTY is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech. |
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