Large vs Plethoric - What's the difference?
large | plethoric | Related terms |
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.
* Milton
(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
* Felton
(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
* Fairfax
(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
A thousand dollars.
(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.
Large is a related term of plethoric.
As adjectives the difference between large and plethoric
is that large is of considerable or relatively great size or extent while plethoric is (medicine) suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.As a noun large
is (music|obsolete) an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.large
English
Adjective
(er)- We have yet large day.
- I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
- Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .
- Some large jests he will make.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See alsoAntonyms
* small, tiny, minusculeDerived terms
* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largishNoun
- Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .
