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plethoric

adj
/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/UK

Etymology

From Late Latin plethoricus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πληθωρικός (plēthōrikós), from πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “plethora”). By surface analysis, plethora + -ic.

  1. derived from πληθωρικός
  2. derived from plethoricus

Definitions

  1. Suffering from plethora

    Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.

    • a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.
    • Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].

  2. Excessive, overabundant, rife

    Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied.

    • the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.

  3. Full or excessively full.

    • Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack! See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack, In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!

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Derived

antiplethoric

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA