Abundant vs Dearth - What's the difference?
abundant | dearth |
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.
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(rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
* 1608 , William Shakespeare, King Lear :
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(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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As an adjective abundant
is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing .As a noun dearth is
a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.abundant
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abundaunt * (obsolete) habundaunt * (obsolete) habundantAdjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* (richly supplied) Normally followed by the word in' or (obsolete) ' of .Synonyms
* ample (see here for explanation of distinctions) * bountiful * copious * exuberant * liberal * overflowing * plenteous * plentiful * profuse * rich * teeming * See alsoAntonyms
* rare * scarce * (math) deficientDerived terms
* abundant number * abundantly * superabundantReferences
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Noun
(en noun)- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.