Definizione monolingua

plenty

plenty (plural plenties)

1. An adequate amount.

   We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

   • 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

     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

plenty

1. A sufficient quantity. More than enough.

   We have plenty of time to have a coffee and catch the train.

   I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.

plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)

1. (obsolete) plentiful.
   • 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:

     if reasons were as plenty as blackberries

   • 1836, The American Gardeners Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:

     Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this years crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; [...]

plenty (not comparable)

1. Sufficiently or very.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

Definizione dizionario plenty

	abbondanza
	An adequate amount
	An overflowing fullness.

affluenza

	pletora
	An overflowing fullness.

abbastanza

abbondante

abbondantemente

copiosità

dovizia

eccessivo

grande

molti

molto

numeroso

sufficiente

tanto

Altri significati:

A sufficient quantity. More than enough.

An adequate amount.

Sufficiently or very.

Sufficiently or very

plentiful

A sufficient amount.

(obsolete) plentiful.