Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. given or giving freely;
- Example: "was a big tipper"
- Example: "the bounteous goodness of God"
- Example: "bountiful compliments"
- Example: "a freehanded host"
- Example: "a handsome allowance"
- Example: "Saturday's child is loving and giving"
- Example: "a liberal backer of the arts"
- Example: "a munificent gift"
- Example: "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
[syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
2. producing in abundance;
- Example: "the bountiful earth"
- Example: "a plentiful year"
- Example: "fruitful soil"
[syn: bountiful, plentiful]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bountiful \Boun"ti*ful\, a. [1913 Webster] 1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. [1913 Webster] God, the bountiful Author of our being. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. [1913 Webster] Syn: Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. [1913 Webster] -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Boun"ti*ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster] BountiheadU.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Bountiful, UT (city, FIPS 7690) Location: 40.87607 N, 111.86521 W Population (1990): 36659 (11488 housing units) Area: 27.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84010Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "bountiful": abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, beneficent, bighearted, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bursting, bursting out, charitable, copious, creative, diffuse, effuse, eleemosynary, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, free, freehanded, freehearted, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, generous, giving, gracious, greathearted, handsome, hospitable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous, open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, stintless, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving, uberous, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

