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Ample vs Plethoric - What's the difference?

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Ample is a related term of plethoric.


As adjectives the difference between ample and plethoric

is that ample is large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended while plethoric is (medicine) suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.

ample

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
  • * All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser.
  • Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
  • Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

    • Synonyms

    * full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent * See also

    Related terms

    () * amplifiable * amplification * amplifier * amplificatory * amplify * amplitude

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    plethoric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
  • *1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, p. 81:
  • *:Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
  • Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely , abundant, varied.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 161:
  • *:the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.

    • Related terms

    * plethora