ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPplethora
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plethora
Meaning: excessive amount or number of something
plethora in a sentence
How plethora is used in real sentences:
The website offers a plethora of courses, making the first choice difficult.
The plethora of proposals made consensus harder rather than easier to reach.
“A plethora of nearly identical invoices began to befuddle her assistants; after hours of comparison, they could no longer decide which numbers were original.”
— from the passage The Threads in the Ledger
Synonyms for plethora
Other words for plethora — abundance, excess and profusion — carry the same meaning.
- abundance
- excess
- profusion
Antonyms of plethora
Words that mean the opposite of plethora:
- scarcity
- dearth
- shortage
Where it comes from
From Greek plethore, meaning 'fullness.'
Memory hook
PLETHORA begins like PLENTY: both signal abundance, but a plethora is excessive.