Affluent vs Plentiful - What's the difference?
affluent | plentiful |
(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.
* H. Reed
(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
* Harvey
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Existing in large number or ample amount.
Yielding abundance; fruitful.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) lavish; profuse; prodigal
* Francis Bacon
As adjectives the difference between affluent and plentiful
is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while plentiful is existing in large number or ample amount.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
plentiful
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Alternative forms
* plentifull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- a plentiful harvest
- a plentiful supply of water
- She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.
- Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
- If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.
- He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay.