replete
- adjective
- /rɪˈpliːt/
- The garden is replete with colorful flowers and fragrant herbs.
- replete with examples
- replete with meaning
- Literature is replete
Don't need it, but our diet is replete with it.
- Don't need it, but our diet is replete with it.
- The standard line is this book is replete with errors, but for reasons of space I can only go into two.
- We covered this a bit last time you were on the podcast, but the questions were replete with requests to discuss seed oils.
- Every one of these stories is replete with allies, people who were not allies, but who became allies, people who get invested in your work.
- Your names are replete with hugs, tears and laughter.
Examples
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And pesticide history is replete with examples where people paid too little attention.
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Hunter-gatherer societies studied in the last 100 years are replete with social exchange systems that have far-reaching economic implications.
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This city is replete with famous names that are no longer here.
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History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant.
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The practice of medicine, itself, is replete with image and symbol.
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Well, the history of Western intellectual thought is replete with answers to that question.
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More can be said about this clearly written chapter, which is replete with insights and even wisdom.
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The history of the nation is replete with stubborn individuals who refused to blindly accept authority.
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The extant literature is replete with commentary on the ineffective nature of suspensions.
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With respect to Islamic social-welfare associations in Egypt, the literature is replete with assumptions concerning their authoritarian nature.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
Containing a lot of something, like tears or facts
More than enough for what is needed
Present in large amounts or more than needed
There is more than enough of something
Having a lot of something, especially food or things grown in a garden
Has enough of the things you need
Containing a lot of something, like emotion or taste
Having a large amount of something useful, like money or books
Full to the top with something, often a feeling
So full that it almost overflows
Full of something that takes up most of it
Having more than enough goods ready to use
Having a lot of money, people, and equipment to do its work
Filled with a strong feeling or idea
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
replete = re + plete
The sense 'filled or well-supplied with' is reasonably predictable from a root meaning 'fill' plus re-, but the root 'plete' is not a standalone English word, which may confuse learners.
Etymology
Replete comes from the Latin parts re- ('again') and plere ('to fill'), so it literally means 'filled'. That is why something described as replete with facts or objects is 'full of' or 'well supplied with' them.