bountiful
adjUS [ˈbaʊ̯n(ɾ)əfəɫ] · UK /ˈbaʊntɪfʌl/
Etymology From bounty + -ful.
1
Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
- They enjoyed a wet summer and a bountiful harvest.
- The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 32:5:
1 more example
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
- Derived terms
- bountifully, bountifulness, unbountiful