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Prodigal vs Plethora - What's the difference?

prodigal | plethora |

As nouns the difference between prodigal and plethora

is that prodigal is a prodigal person, a spendthrift while plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.

As an adjective prodigal

is wastefully extravagant.

prodigal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wastefully extravagant.
    • He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.
    He is a prodigal son.
  • (often, followed by of or with) someone yielding profusely, lavish
    • She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
    How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
  • profuse, lavishly abundant
  • returning after abandoning a person, group, or ideal, especially for selfish reasons; being a prodigal son.
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    Antonyms

    * (a prodigal person) frugal

    Derived terms

    * prodigal son

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prodigal person, a spendthrift.

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    plethora

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
    • The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
  • * Jeffrey
    • He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
  • (medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.

    • Quotations

    * 1849 , *: I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent. * 1927 , (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction) *: Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries ..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.

    Synonyms

    * glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew

    Related terms

    * plethoric

    See also

    * myriad

    References

    * “ plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
    Pronounced: .

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