Word Meanings - AMPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser. 2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample

Additional info about word: AMPLE

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser. 2. Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice. 3. Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson. Syn. -- Full; spacious; extensive; wide; capacious; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; copious; bountiful; rich; liberal; munificent. -- Ample, Copious, Abundant, Plenteous. These words agree in representing a thing as large, but under different relations, according to the image which is used. Ample implies largeness, producing a sufficiency or fullness of supply for every want; as, ample stores or resources, ample provision. Copious carries with it the idea of flow, or of collection at a single point; as, a copious supply of materials. "Copious matter of my song." Milton. Abundant and plenteous refer to largeness of quantity; as, abundant stores; plenteous harvests. (more info) both sides, the last syllable akin to L. plenus full. See Full, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMPLE)

• Abundant
• Plentiful
• copious
• plenteous
• large
• ample
• overflowing
• teeming
• full
• lavish
• luxuriant
• bountiful
• abounding
• profuse
• liberal
• rich
• Broad
• Wide
• extensive
• expansive
• comprehensive
• unreserved
• indelicate
• coarse
• generic
• Bulky
• Huge
• unwieldy
• heavy
• ponderous
• burly
• cumbrous
• gigantic
• brawny
• massive
• Capacious
• Spacious
• voluminous
• accommodative
• wide
• Commodious
• Ample
• easy
• convenient
• spacious
• suitable
• comfortable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMPLE)

• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to AMPLE)

• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• BROADBILL
  A wild duck , which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• BOUNTIFUL
  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.
• BROADLY
  In a broad manner.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• BROAD
  Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. 9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. 10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.;
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CONGENERIC; CONGENERICAL
  Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.