Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding largely or copiously; fruitful; productive; prolific.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.
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- adjective archaic
fruitful ;copious ;abundant ;plentiful
Etymologies
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From Latin uber ("full, fruitful, fertile, abundant, plentiful, copious, productive")
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Examples
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Spills have tainted the waters, constant burning of oil wells have affected the air, and the soil that once gave birth to rich foods in abundance is now barely uberous.
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That “sensitive, lucid, uberous organ,” with its “ridges and creases running over his sic surface,”83 isolated from its body, incapable of expression and communication, with its single eye floating in a basin of Ringer’s solution, was shockingly, almost mockingly prophetic of his wife’s current situation.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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