Word Meanings - ABUNDANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been

Additional info about word: ABUNDANCE

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh. Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. -- Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABUNDANCE)

• Affluence
• Abundance
• plenty
• wealth
• riches
• opulence
• Effluence
• Outpouring
• emission
• discharge
• abundance
• overflow
• Enough
• Sufficient
• ample
• Excess
• Advance
• increase
• redundancy
• superfluity
• extravagance
• surplus
• debauchery
• intemperance
• Flood
• Deluge
• inundation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABUNDANCE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to ABUNDANCE)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• AMPLENESS
  The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• OUTPOUR
  To pour out. Milton.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• RICHES
  1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. That
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.