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Plethoric

//ˈplɛθəɹɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.

    "a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever."

  2. 2
    Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied.

    "the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run."

  3. 3
    Full or excessively full.

    "Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack! See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack, In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively abundant wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin plethoricus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πληθωρικός (plēthōrikós), from πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “plethora”). By surface analysis, plethora + -ic.

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