PLENTY

enough, plenty

(adverb) as much as necessary; “Have I eaten enough?”; (‘plenty’ is nonstandard) “I’ve had plenty, thanks”

plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude

(noun) a full supply; “there was plenty of food for everyone”

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(noun) (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”; “it must have cost plenty”; “a slew of journalists”; “a wad of money”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Plenty

A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.

A town in Tasmania, Australia.

A town in Victoria, Australia.

Anagrams

• pentyl

Etymology

Noun

plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)

A more-than-adequate amount.

Usage notes

While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun, or as both a noun and a pronoun.

Synonyms

• abundance

• profusion

Pronoun

plenty

More than enough.

Usage notes

See the notes about the noun.

Adverb

plenty (not comparable)

More than sufficiently.

(colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.

Determiner

plenty

(nonstandard) much, enough

(nonstandard) many

Adjective

plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)

(obsolete) plentiful

Anagrams

• pentyl

Source: Wiktionary

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Plen"ty, n.; pl. Plenties, in Shak. Etym: [OE. plentee, plente, OF. plenté, fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See Full, a., and cf. Complete.]

Definition: Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." Shak. Houses of office stuffed with plentee. Chaucer. The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world. Thomson.

Syn.

– Abundance; exuberance. See Abundance.

Plen"ty, a.

Definition: Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.] If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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