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Plenary vs Abundant - What's the difference?

plenary | abundant |

As adjectives the difference between plenary and abundant

is that plenary is fully attended; for everyone's attendance while abundant is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing .

As a noun plenary

is plenary session.

plenary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
  • (theology, or, legal) Complete; full; entire; absolute.
  • * I. Watts
    • A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full.

    Derived terms

    * plenary court * plenary session * plenary speaker * plenary talk

    Noun

    (plenaries)
  • plenary session
    • After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary .

    References

    abundant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) abundaunt * (obsolete) habundaunt * (obsolete) habundant

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * rare * scarce * (math) deficient

    Derived terms

    * abundant number * abundantly * superabundant

    Related terms

    * abound

    References

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