Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Abundant to excess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Extremely orexceedingly abundant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective most excessively abundant
Etymologies
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Examples
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A woman with as much colour would have been accused of painting; in him it gave to some people the idea of superabundant health, to others it suggested a phthisical tendency.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Commenters often append adjectives, as you did, in your article for the Wall Street Journal, like "superabundant" to statements of the Getty's $4. 5-billion endowment.
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She seemed bursting with it, and every quick, spontaneous movement appeared to spring from very excess of red blood and superabundant energy.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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As well as to weakness and exhaustion, does he appeal to too much strength, to superabundant vitality, to the ennui of idleness.
Chapter 24 2010
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And among the commonest reasons why forgers get busy in the first place is to take full advantage of the excitement arising from the “discovery” ofan object of superabundant rarity.
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She is generous, dependable, sensible -- yes, and sensitive; and her superabundant vitality, the vitality that makes her walk so gloriously, discounts the maturity of her.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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Needless to say, those 25,824 words will make sense enough to many readers, grateful for any distant message from the once superabundant pen.
A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance James Campbell 2011
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And among the commonest reasons why forgers get busy in the first place is to take full advantage of the excitement arising from the “discovery” ofan object of superabundant rarity.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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It is unfortunate that Arabs obsess about building in Israel rather than aiming for the development of their own superabundant lands.
How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze? Ruth R. Wisse 2010
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It is unfortunate that Arabs obsess about building in Israel rather than aiming for the development of their own superabundant lands.
How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze? Ruth R. Wisse 2010
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