Affluent vs Bountiful - What's the difference?
affluent | bountiful |
(rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
* 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
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(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
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Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
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As adjectives the difference between affluent and bountiful
is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while bountiful is having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.As a noun affluent
is somebody who is wealthy.affluent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- languageaffluent in expression
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* affluence * affluentlyReferences
bountiful
English
Alternative forms
* bountifull (archaic)Adjective
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