Replete
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English
Adjective
Replete (comparative more Replete, superlative most Replete)
- Abounding.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, "The Pheasant and the Lark":
- A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
- His subjects with delight obey:
- His tail was beauteous to behold,
- Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
- 1759, Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, ch. 12:
- I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 44:
- "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
- 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers, "Seneca":
- History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, "The Pheasant and the Lark":
- Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
- 1901, Bret Harte, "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods:
- And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .
- 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 15:
- In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .
- 1901, Bret Harte, "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods:
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Verb
Replete (third-person singular simple present Repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)
- To restore something that has been depleted.
Thesaurus
SRO, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, allayed, ample, aplenty, awash, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, cloyed, congested, copious, cram-full, crammed, crowded, diffuse, disgusted, effuse, engorged, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, farci, fat, fed-up, fertile, filled, flush, full, full of, full to bursting, galore, generous, glutted, gorged, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jaded, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, liberal, loaded, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, numerous, opulent, overfed, overflowing, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, ready to burst, replication, rich, rife, riotous, round, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied, saturated, sick of, slaked, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, superabundant, supersaturated, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, thronged, tired of, topful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Latin
Verb
replēte
- second-person plural present active imperative of repleō
