Plentiful vs Plethoric - What's the difference?
plentiful | plethoric | Related terms |
Existing in large number or ample amount.
Yielding abundance; fruitful.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) lavish; profuse; prodigal
* Francis Bacon
(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.
Plentiful is a related term of plethoric.
As adjectives the difference between plentiful and plethoric
is that plentiful is existing in large number or ample amount while plethoric is (medicine) suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.plentiful
English
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.
