plenty
- adverb
- /ˈplɛnti/
- Informal
- You look plenty healthy to me.
And we've talked, you know, plenty about how that's probably not true.
- And we've talked, you know, plenty about how that's probably not true.
- Yeah, you're going to be plenty slow for our little sluggish PC here.
- And I am plenty anxious about this, this situation.
- I'm kind of split on this as far as which one I would go for this one looks plenty good for me.
- And in reality, I do two to three really hard work sets of hack, hack machine squats per week, which is plenty for me to maintain and even get a little bit stronger.
- Two weeks is plenty a month, baby, Let's fucking sell the shit by two weeks.
- This is super retina XDR display content looks really, really good on it and the speakers get plenty, plenty loud if I want to put this all the way up.
Examples
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So there's plenty that can be done.
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We are plenty powerful without having to prove it on a daily basis.
Blog text (20) -
Oh no, I have plenty to say after the election.
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And you look plenty healthy to me.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yet we're told that we must take plenty of risks to succeed.
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She's told you plenty about my book.
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Many of them are plenty snarky, too.
Blog text (10) -
I'm sure that that's plenty of food for thought for you guys.
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And we've talked, you know, plenty about how that's probably not true.
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There were plenty of options available for dinner, so everyone could choose what they liked.
Synonyms
To the amount needed for something to happen
At a level that is enough for what is needed
Compounds
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plenty as an adverb comes from the same Old French plente and Latin plenus 'full'. That is why saying 'I've eaten plenty' means you are 'full' or have had enough.