Abundant
//əˈbʌn.dənt// adj
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
"Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam."
- 2 Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
"Abundant in goodness and truth."
- 3 Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
Adjective
- 1 present in great quantity wordnet
Example
More examples"The district is abundant in natural resources."
Etymology
First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.
Related phrases
More for "abundant"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.