First attested about 1380. FromMiddle English abundaunt ,[ 1] habundaunt ,[ 2] aboundant , fromAnglo-Norman abundant , fromOld French abondant , fromLatin abundāns , present participle ofabundō ( “ to overflow, to abound ” ) . Compareabound .
abundant (comparative moreabundant ,superlative mostabundant )
Fully sufficient; found incopious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.] [ 3] Antonyms: rare ,scarce Blackberries areabundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
anabundant selection of carpets to choose from
a. 1859 ,Leigh Hunt ,On the Realities of Imagination :[W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight theabundant images and beauties of creation.
2017 ,BioWare ,Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction ), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC , PC, scene: Kadara:Kadara was of great interest to the Andromeda Initiative after it appeared on long-range surveys. Seeminglyabundant liquid water and an oxygen-mix atmosphere made it a strong candidate for settlement, earning it the designation Habitat 4. Closer range surveys now reveal that Kadara's water sources are tainted and unpotable.
Richlysupplied ;wealthy ; possessing in great quantity.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.] [ 3] Synonyms: flush ,rife ( mathematics ) Being anabundant number , i.e. less than the sum of all of itsdivisors except itself.[First attested in the mid 16th century.] [ 3] Antonym: deficient ( richly supplied ) : Normally followed by the wordin or( obsolete ) of .fully sufficient; plentiful
Afrikaans:oorvloedig Albanian:maj (sq) Arabic:وافِر (ar) ( wāfir ) Moroccan Arabic:وافْر ( wāfr ) Armenian:առատ (hy) ( aṙat ) Azerbaijani:bol (az) Belarusian:бага́ты (be) ( baháty ) Bengali:বহুল (bn) ( bohul ) Bulgarian:оби́лен (bg) ( obílen ) ,изоби́лен (bg) ( izobílen ) Catalan:abundant (ca) Chamicuro:icheeki Chinese:Mandarin:豐富 / 丰富 (zh) ( fēngfù ) Cornish:pals Czech:hojný (cs) m Danish:rigelig Dutch:overvloedig (nl) ,rijkelijk voorhanden ,abondant (nl) Esperanto:abunda (eo) Finnish:runsas (fi) ,yltäkylläinen (fi) French:abondant (fr) Galician:abundante (gl) ,abondoso Georgian:უხვი ( uxvi ) ,სავსე ( savse ) ,დოვლათიანი ( dovlatiani ) German:reichlich (de) ,wohlhabend (de) Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍉𐌷𐍃 ( ganōhs ) Greek:άφθονος (el) ( áfthonos ) Ancient Greek:ἄφθονος ( áphthonos ) ,δαψιλής ( dapsilḗs ) ,περισσός ( perissós ) Hindi:प्रचुर (hi) ( pracur ) Hungarian:bőséges (hu) ,kiadós (hu) Ido:abundanta (io) Interlingua:abundante Irish:líonmhar ,raidhsiúil ,fairsing Italian:abbondante (it) Japanese:豊か (ja) ( yutaka ) ,量の多い (ja) ( ryō no ōi ) Latin:abundans ,amplus (la) ,largus Latvian:bagātīgs Lithuanian:gausus Māori:ranea ,makuru Norwegian:Bokmål:rikelig (no) ,rik (no) Plautdietsch:riew Polish:obfity (pl) Portuguese:abundante (pt) Quechua:yupa Romanian:abundent (ro) Russian:оби́льный (ru) m ( obílʹnyj ) ,изоби́лующий (ru) m ( izobílujuščij ) Sanskrit:बहु (sa) ( bahu ) Scots:roch Scottish Gaelic:pailt Spanish:abundante (es) ,copioso (es) ,cuantioso (es) Swedish:riklig (sv) ,ymnig (sv) Telugu:మిక్కిలి (te) ( mikkili ) Tocharian B:īte Turkish:bol (tr) Ottoman Turkish:كور ( gür ) Ukrainian:бага́тий (uk) ( bahátyj ) Uzbek:mo’l Vietnamese:dồi dào (vi) Volapük:bundanik (vo) Welsh:helaeth (cy) Zazaki:zaf (diq)
^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing) ), “abundant”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , New York, N.Y.:American Heritage Publishing Co. ,→OCLC , page 6. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN ), page 8 ↑3.0 3.1 3.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002 ), “abundant”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles , 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press ,→ISBN , page10 . Borrowed fromLatin abundantem .
abundant m or f (masculine and feminine plural abundants )
abundant ;plentiful abundant
gerund ofabundar Borrowed fromMiddle French abundant .
IPA (key ) : /aː.bʏnˈdɑnt/ Hyphenation:abun‧dant Rhymes:-ɑnt abundant (comparative abundanter ,superlative abundantst )
abundant abundant (strong nominative masculine singular abundanter ,comparative abundanter ,superlative am abundantesten )
abundant Positive forms ofabundant
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“abundant ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache abundant
third-person plural present active indicative ofabundō abundant
( Anglo-Norman ) alternative form ofabondant abundant m or n (feminine singular abundantă ,masculine plural abundanți ,feminine/neuter plural abundante )
obsolete form ofabundent abundant in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN