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Antonyms for plethora

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pleth-er-uh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplɛθ ər ə


Definition of plethora

Origin :
  • 1540s, a medical word for "excess of body fluid," from Late Latin plethora, from Greek plethore "fullness," from plethein "be full" (see pleio-). Figurative meaning "too-muchness, overfullness in any respect" is first recorded 1700. Related: Plethoric.
  • noun excess
Example sentences :
  • That would be worse, Lawrence, for the damp might cause a plethora.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Man produces gestalts, and cuts form out of the plethora of nothingness.
  • Extract from : « Warm » by Robert Sheckley
  • Your present plethora of acquirements will soon cure itself.
  • Extract from : « Medical Essays » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • The intestines of our mountains are gorged with precious ore to plethora.
  • Extract from : « Roughing It » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Taxation is necessary just as blood-letting is necessary in plethora.
  • Extract from : « Comic Arithmetic » by Anonymous
  • Any one but a German would have been nauseated by such a plethora of food.
  • Extract from : « Mohawks, Volume 3 of 3 » by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • Occasionally it arises from mobility of the sensorium, induced by plethora, or by excessive debility.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Not that there had been a plethora of amenities between them, but this was unthinkable!
  • Extract from : « Mate in Two Moves » by Winston Marks
  • The Maltese, unfortunately, have a paucity of reason and a plethora of priests.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Malta » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • It is generally caused by plethora, yet it may exist in an hereditary form.
  • Extract from : « The American Reformed Cattle Doctor » by George Dadd

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