plenty
Plural: plenties
Noun
- A sufficient or abundant amount; enough and to spare.
- a full supply
- "there was plenty of food for everyone"
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- "it must have cost plenty"
- A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude.
Adverb
- as much as necessary; ; (`plenty' is nonstandard)
- "I've had plenty, thanks"
Pron
- More than enough.
Adv
- More than sufficiently.
- Used as an intensifier, very.
Det
- much, enough
- many
Adj
- Plentiful.
Examples
- Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.
- Despite a difficult draw, she had PLENTY of options for a bingo on the triple-word score.
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
- She was plenty mad at him.
- There'll be plenty time later for that
- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.
Synonyms
batch, deal, enough, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, abundance, profusion
Scrabble Score: 11
plenty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplenty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plenty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary