Plenty vs Rich - What's the difference?
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A more than adequate amount.
* 1798 , (Thomas Malthus), (An Essay on the Principle of Population):
More than sufficiently.
(label) , very.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
(label) much, enough
(label) many
(label) plentiful
* 1597 , Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
* 1836 , The American Gardener's Magazine and Register , volume 2, page 279:
Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
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, title= *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=(George Monbiot)
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, title= Having a fatty, intense flavour.
* Baker
Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
* Rowe
* Milton
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
* Milton
Not faint or delicate; vivid.
(informal, dated) Very amusing.
(informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
(computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
* 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming
* 2003 , Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
* 2008 , Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(obsolete) To enrich.
In obsolete terms the difference between plenty and rich
is that plenty is plentiful while rich is to enrich.As a noun plenty
is a more than adequate amount.As a pronoun plenty
is more than enough.As an adverb plenty
is more than sufficiently.As a determiner plenty
is much, enough.As a verb rich is
to enrich.plenty
English
Noun
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty .
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun,Macmillan]or as both a noun and a pronoun.[http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/plenty oxforddictionaries.comHarrap's essential English Dictionary'' (1996)''Heinemann English Dictionary (2001)
Derived terms
* horn of plenty * land of plenty * plenteous * plentifulSynonyms
* abundance * profusionUsage notes
See the notes about the noun.Adverb
(-)- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- She was plenty mad at him.
- Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.
Determiner
(en determiner)- There'll be plenty time later for that
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
Adjective
(en adjective)- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
- Radishes are very plenty . Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; [...]
Anagrams
*rich
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
- a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry
- Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
- a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop
- If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
- The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Battle of the bulge, passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}
- rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine
- a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents
- rich and various gems
- a rich red colour
- The scene was a rich one.
- a rich incident or character
- (Thackeray)
- A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
- Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
- But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
Synonyms
* (wealthy) wealthy, well off, see alsoAntonyms
* (wealthy) poor; see also * (plentiful) needy * (computing) plain, unformatted, vanilla * (fuel-air mixture) leanDerived terms
* filthy rich * get-rich-quick * hood rich * neutron-rich * nickel-rich * too rich for one's blood * rags to riches * richdom * riches * richly * rich media * richness * rich tea biscuit * rich text * strike it rich * superrichVerb
- (Gower)
