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Webster 1913 Edition


Bountiful

Boun′ti-ful

,
Adj.
1.
Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
God, the
bountiful
Author of our being.
Locke.
2.
Plentiful; abundant;
as, a
bountiful
supply of food
.
Syn. – Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous.
Boun′ti-ful-ly
,
adv.
Boun′ti-ful-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bountiful

BOUN'TIFUL

,
Adj.
[bounty and full.] Free to give; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors; munificent; generous.
God, the bountiful author of our being.
It is followed by of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving.

Definition 2024


bountiful

bountiful

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Adjective

bountiful (comparative more bountiful, superlative most bountiful)

  1. Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
    • 2013 June 29, Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
    They enjoyed a wet summer and a bountiful harvest.