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Bounteous vs Plethoric - What's the difference?

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Bounteous is a related term of plethoric.


As adjectives the difference between bounteous and plethoric

is that bounteous is (of a person) inclined to be generous while plethoric is (medicine) suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.

bounteous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Inclined to be generous.
  • Liberal or abundant.

    • Derived terms

    * bounteousness

    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