plethora

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pleth=o=ra

CIDE DICTIONARY

plethora, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to be or become full. Cf. Pleonasm.].

•  Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.  [1913 Webster]
•  State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.  [1913 Webster]

  "He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plethora, n.
1 an oversupply, glut, or excess.
2 Med. a an abnormal excess of red corpuscles in the blood. b an excess of any body fluid.

Derivative

plethoric also adj. plethorically adv.

Etymology

LL f. Gk plethore f. pletho be full

THESAURUS

plethora

amplitude, avalanche, congestion, deluge, embarras de richesses, engorgement, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flood tide, full, fullness, glut, high tide, high water, hyperemia, impletion, inundation, landslide, lavishness, many, money to burn, more than enough, much, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overkill, overlavishness, overload, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuch, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overplus, overpopulation, overprofusion, overspill, oversufficiency, oversupply, overweight, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, redundancy, repletion, satiety, saturation, saturation point, spate, spring tide, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, surplus, surplusage

ROGET THESAURUS

plethora

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.