abundant

EN
adjective

🇺🇸

/əˈbʌndənt/

🇺🇸

/əˈbʌndənt/

🇬🇧

/əˈbʌndənt/

🇬🇧

/əˈbʌndənt/

Word Forms

Description

Abundant means existing or available in large quantities — so much that it feels almost overflowing, like a harvest basket spilling over with fruit or a forest teeming with life. It’s not just 'enough' — it’s generously, impressively plentiful.

Examples

The region is abundant in natural resources like oil, timber, and freshwater.

Her kindness was abundant, always showing up in small gestures and big sacrifices.

Tropical rainforests are abundant with plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth.

We were fortunate to have an abundant supply of food during the holiday gathering.

The report provides abundant data to support its conclusions.

Root

abund

Comes from the Latin verb 'abundare', meaning 'to overflow' or 'to be plentiful'. The root combines the prefix 'ab-' (meaning 'away, from') and 'undare' (from 'unda', meaning 'wave'), literally suggesting 'to overflow like waves'. It conveys the core idea of overflowing quantity, copiousness, or rich supply. Examples include abundant, abundance, abound, redundant, inundate.