plenty

/ˈplɛnti/

/ˈplɛnti/

Other forms: plenties

If you've eaten your fill at a big meal, you know by your full stomach that you have had plenty. In fact, if you had more than plenty, you might even get the feeling you've had too much!

The word plenty usually refers to more than just enough, and this comes, via Middle French plenté, from the Latin word plēnitās, "fullness," from plenus, "full, complete." The meaning is apparent in the following quote by English novelist George Eliot: "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music." May you have plenty of what you need, and some of what you want as well.

Definitions of plenty

1. noun

   a full supply
   “there was plenty of food for everyone”

   synonyms: plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude

   type of:

   abundance, copiousness, teemingness

   the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
2. noun

   (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   “it must have cost plenty”

   synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

   types:

   barrage, deluge, flood, flurry, inundation, torrent

   an overwhelming number or amount

   haymow

   a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation

   type of:

   large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

   an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
3. adverb

   as much as necessary
   “"(`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks”

   synonyms: enough