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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.
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
English
Alternative forms
- bountifull (archaic)
Adjective
bountiful (comparative more bountiful, superlative most bountiful)
- 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.
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