plenty

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There are plenty of ways leaving them naked will screw you over.

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Quick take

a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plenty gathered in one view.

noun

a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

adverb

as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plenty.

noun

a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"

noun

adverb

as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"

Example sentences

There are plenty of ways leaving them naked will screw you over.

Raganwald, you and most of HN are plenty smart enough.

Kennedy took plenty of hits as people questioned if he'd "just do what the pope told him to do.

In reality, there are plenty of jobs where I would be happy to work relatively long hours.

If you can write Python code, which is obviously a common skill for someone interested in contributing to Python, there's plenty of work.

It's not about the technology, the tools, the apps, the business, the customers, or even the money, although any of those can provide plenty of motivation.

I'm sure there are plenty of GitHub employees who have a strong opinion, but enough of them seem to have an ax to grind in one way or another that it's hard to trust that testimony.

I've been in plenty of meetings with bright people from inside and outside the company where we started off with the goal that, as he put it, "if you do it right you publish once and it works anywhere".

But plenty of people have bipolar mood disorders, with various mood patterns over time, and bipolar mood disorders are tricky to treat, because some treatments that lift mood simply move patients from depression into mania.