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bountiful Definition

boun·ti·ful (-tə fəl)

adjective

  1. giving freely and graciously; generous
  2. provided in abundance; plentiful

bountiful Related Forms
boun·ti·fully adverb boun·ti·ful·ness noun
bountiful Synonyms

bountiful

modif.

  1. Plentiful

    bounteous, abundant, lavish; see plentiful 1, 2.

  2. Generous

    munificent, liberal, openhanded; see generous 1, philanthropic.

bountiful Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • harvest: Four books for leaders £ 22 Train a farmer A bountiful harvest is the first step out of poverty for farmers.
  • crop: Hopefully next year will witness a more bountiful crop.
  • supply: Oncology has a bountiful supply of unmet clinical needs.
  • food: There is magnificent livestock, bountiful food and drink, a glorious flower and garden marquee and lots of family entertainment.
  • gift: The children aided some of the people as they were too weak to carry their bountiful harvest gifts.
  • land: More than three million deaths and the ruin of a once bountiful land followed.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: But I wonder: would he still do it if the rewards weren't so bountiful?
  • very: Feeding the soil Fruit can be very bountiful without regular inputs of food.
  • too: My dear sir, you really are too bountiful.
  • once: More than three million deaths and the ruin of a once bountiful land followed.
bountiful Quotes

With what nice care equivalents are given, How just, how bountiful, the hand of Heaven.

—Wordsworth,William

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

—Dillard, Annie

Browse dictionary entries near bountiful

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  5. bounded medium
  6. bounded
  7. boundary layer
  8. boundary
  9. bound to
  10. -bound
  1. bounty
  2. bounty hunter
  3. bounty jumper
  4. bouquet
  5. bouquet garni
  6. bourbon
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  10. bourgeois