Adjective

(en adjective)

Significant; worth considering.

Large in amount.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.

* [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination

Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.

* Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6

(mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.