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Antonyms for abundant
əˈbʌn dəntabun·dant

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Wiktionary4.3 / 6 votes

  1. abundantadjective

    Antonyms:
    rare, scarce

    Synonyms:
    overflowing, teeming, profuse, exuberant, plenteous, liberal, copious, bountiful, rich, plentiful, ample

  2. abundantadjective

    Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity.

    [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination

    Antonyms:
    rare, scarce

    Synonyms:
    plentiful, teeming, rich, ample, plenteous, profuse, bountiful, overflowing, exuberant, copious, liberal

  3. abundantadjective

    Richly supplied — followed by in, rarely by with.

    Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6

    Antonyms:
    rare, scarce

    Synonyms:
    exuberant, ample, plentiful, rich, liberal, profuse, teeming, bountiful, copious, overflowing, plenteous

  4. abundantadjective

    Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.

    Synonyms:
    copious, bountiful, teeming, overflowing, plentiful, rich, exuberant, profuse, ample, liberal, plenteous

    Antonyms:
    scarce, rare

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. abundant

    Large denotes extension in more than one direction, and beyond the average of the class to which the object belongs; we speak of a large surface or a large solid, but of a long line; a large field, a large room, a large apple, etc. A large man is a man of more than ordinary size; a great man is a man of remarkable mental power. Big is a more emphatic word than large, but of less dignity. We do not say that George Washington was a big man.

    Antonyms:
    brief, diminutive, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, limited, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scanty, short, slender, slight, small, tiny, trifling, trivial

    Synonyms:
    ample, big, broad, bulky, capacious, coarse, colossal, commodious, considerable, enormous, extensive, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, long, massive, spacious, vast, wide

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. abundant

    Antonyms:
    rare, scarce, scant, deficient, short, insufficient, niggardly, sparing, dry, drained, exhausted, impoverished

    Synonyms:
    plentiful, copious, plenteous, large, ample, overflowing, teeming, full, lavish, luxuriant, bountiful, abounding, profuse, liberal, rich

Princeton's WordNet4.3 / 4 votes

  1. abundantadjective

    present in great quantity

    "an abundant supply of water"

    Antonyms:
    rare, tight, scarce

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. abundantadjective

    Antonyms:
    deficient, inadequate, insufficient

    Synonyms:
    plentiful, copious, exuberant, galore, ample, lavish, plenteous, teeming, bountiful

How to use abundant in a sentence?

  1. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang:

    We express appreciation and thanks for this. It shows that a just cause enjoys abundant support and people have a sense of natural justice.

  2. John Shimkus:

    We should be willing to accept that affordable and abundant energy is a key ingredient for economic growth. After all, economic growth and economic resources, coupled with sound planning infrastructure and governance, increase local capabilities to minimize impacts of future extreme events, these are realities we should explore today and in future hearings if we want to develop sound environmental and energy policies if we want to reduce climate risk.

  3. Jill Tarter:

    Are we Martians ? Early in the solar system, there was a lot of exchange of material, collisions were abundant and pieces of rock that chipped off Mars ended up landing on Earth, it's possible that life started somewhere other than Earth.

  4. Pedro Figueira:

    This achievement is extremely important, it shows that the radial velocity technique has the potential to unveil a population of light planets, like our own, that are expected to be the most abundant in our galaxy and that can potentially host life as we know it.

  5. Henry Dao:

    I hope we'll win the case so we can come back to Scarborough where there's abundant fish, and improve our lives, i have high hopes the court will favor us.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#350small
#398little
#746short
#751limited
#1008mean
#1981minute
#2436brief
#2507dry
#2682rare
#3889narrow
#3986tight
#4106tiny
#7516slight
#10242insufficient
#12556trivial
#12717abundant
#13331petty
#14778exhausted
#15777scarce
#16860drained
#17142deficient
#19838microscopic
#19918slender
#20267insignificant
#30192impoverished
#37666scant
#44975sparing
#50848diminutive
#57224paltry
#58405infinitesimal
#67164scanty
#69037trifling
#118861inconsiderable
#226840niggardly

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