Abundant vs Replete - What's the difference?
abundant | replete | Synonyms |
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.
Abounding.
* 1730 , , "The Pheasant and the Lark":
* 1759 , , Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , ch. 12:
* 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 44:
* 1916 , , Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers , "Seneca":
Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
* 1901 , , "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods :
* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 15:
To restore something that has been depleted.
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Replete is a synonym of abundant.
As adjectives the difference between abundant and replete
is that abundant is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing while replete is abounding.As a noun replete is
a honeypot ant.As a verb replete is
to restore something that has been depleted.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
replete
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
- His subjects with delight obey:
- His tail was beauteous to behold,
- Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
- "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
- History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
- And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .
- In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .