plenty
A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
Noun 1 meaning
A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal.
“We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.”
Pronoun 1 meaning
More than enough.
“Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.”
Adverb 2 meanings
More than sufficiently.
“This office is plenty big enough for our needs.”
Used as an intensifier, very.
“She was plenty mad at him.”
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic.
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PLENTY at a glance
PLENTY has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (P 3 + L 1 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,911 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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