plenty

noun

1. 1

   A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.

   We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

   'It's all right, darling,' said Bond, pulling out his notecase. 'You've forgotten you gave me your money to look after before we left the house.' 'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor.

pronoun

1. 1

   More than enough.

   Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.

adverb

1. 1

   More than sufficiently.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

   For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.

2. 2

   Used as an intensifier, very.

   She was plenty mad at him.

   'Guess the lady'll need plenty for her summer frocks,' said the conductor. 'Shops is plenty expensive in St Pete. Plenty hot down there too. You folks been to Florida before?'

   Seeing clichés mimicked this skillfully is plenty hilarious.

determiner

1. 1

   much, enough

   There'll be plenty time later for that

2. 2

   many

   Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

adjective

1. 1

   obsoletePlentiful.

   if reasons were as plenty as blackberries

   There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.

   Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]

Forms

plural

plenties

comparative

more plenty

superlative

most plenty