Plenty Definition

plĕntē
plenties
noun
A plentiful or abundant supply; enough or more than enough.
Webster's New World
Prosperity; opulence.
Webster's New World
A large number; multitude.
Plenty of errors.
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adjective
Plentiful; enough; ample.
Plenty time before lunch.
Webster's New World
1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279.
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; [...]
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adverb
Fully; sufficiently; quite.
Plenty good.
Webster's New World
(colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
She was plenty mad at him.
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Synonyms:
pronoun

More than enough.

I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.
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determiner

(nonstandard) Much, enough.

There'll be plenty time later for that.
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(nonstandard) Many.

Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
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Other Word Forms of Plenty

Noun

Singular:
plenty
Plural:
plenties

Origin of Plenty

  • From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness"), from plenus (“complete, full"), from Proto-Indo-European *plÌ¥h₁nós (“full") (English full, via Proto-Germanic).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French plente from Latin plēnitās from plēnus full pelə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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