Amply

Definitions: Amply

Amply

Adverb

1. To an ample degree or in an ample manner; "these voices were amply represented"; "we benefited richly".

2. Sufficiently; more than adequately; "the evidence amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions"; "they were fully (or amply) fed".

Date "amply" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Amply

Synonyms: fully (adv), richly (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: meagerly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sufficiency	Adverb: sufficiently, amply; Adjective:; full; in abundance; n. with no sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amply

English words defined with "amply": fully, Fully committed ♦ richly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A prophet and a pilgrim; being the incredible history of Thomas Lake Harris and Laurence Oliphant; their sexual mysticisms and Utopian communities amply documented to confound the skeptic (reference) A settlement amply supplied : food technology in nineteenth century Australia (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Switzerland	It amply funds a system of public education and need-based subsidies of health insurance. (references)
	Greece	The Government is committed strongly to children's rights and welfare; it amply funds a system of public education and health care. (references)
Political Rights	Armenia	There was no criminal investigation of the amply documented ballot box stuffing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The amount, even if all the injured were included, would not be great, and on future emergencies the Government would be amply repaid by the influence of an example that he who incurs a loss in its defense shall find a recompense in its liberality.
James Madison	1809-1817	On the ocean the pride of our naval arms had been amply supported.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Amply" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amply" is used about 201 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	201	21,536

Expressions using "amply": amply dimensioned ♦ amply rewarded. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "amply": amply-filled, amply-soled, amply-toned.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "amply"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me bollëk (copious, profusely, to one's heart's content). (various references)

Arabic		‏بوفرة (galore, profusely, richly), ‏بسعة (abundantly), ‏بإسهاب (in detail). (various references)

Bulgarian		щедро (at large, freely, largely, prodigally, profusely), обилно, напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), достатъчно (enough, nice and, plenty, sufficiently). (various references)

Chinese		宽裕地. (various references)

Czech		bohatì (richly). (various references)

Danish		at vaelge en form for understoettelse, hvor mulighed for hoejdeindstilling inddaekker aendringer i lagtykkelse (to select a support whose range of height amply covers variations in seam thickness), varmstyrken af Cr-Mo-V staalstoebegods er et velkendt faenomen ved langtidsundersoegelser (the hot strength of CRMOV cast steel has been amply demonstrated by long-term tests). (various references)

Dutch		een ondersteuningssysteem kiezen waarvan de regelmogelijkheden in de hoogte ruim voldoende zijn om voor alle laagdikten te kunnen dienen (to select a support whose range of height amply covers variations in seam thickness), de warmvastheid van Cr Mo V-Gietstaal is bij proeven van lange duur duidelijk komen vast te staan (the hot strength of CRMOV cast steel has been amply demonstrated by long-term tests). (various references)

Finnish		runsain määrin (in ample measure), runsaasti (abundantly, in abundance, in plenty, in profusion, plenty). (various references)

French		amplement, abondamment, largement. (various references)

German		reichlich (abound, abundant, abundantly, ample, bountiful, bountifully, conservative, copious, fatly, full, generous, large, lavishly, liberal, numerous, opulent, overabundant, plenteous, plentiful, plentifully, plenty, profuse, profusely, richly, substantial, thick), übbig. (various references)

Greek		άφθονα (abundantly). (various references)

Hungarian		bőven (abundantly, exuberantly, galore, in plenty, profusely). (various references)

Italian		la resistenza alle late temperature dell' acciaio fuso CRMOV è ben documentata dalle prove di lunga durata (the hot strength of CRMOV cast steel has been amply demonstrated by long-term tests), l. scegliere un armamento la cui respirazione copra largamente le variazioni di potenza del banco 2. scegliere un armamento di altezza regolabile in modo da coprire ampiamente le variazioni di potenza del banco (to select a support whose range of height amply covers variations in seam thickness). (various references)

Korean		충분하게 (Adequately, fully, sufficiently). (various references)

Manx		dy skyoltagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		amplyay

Romanian		amplu (abundant, ample, extensive, fully, good, handsomely, lush, rich, spacious), amãnunţit (circumstantial, detail, detailed, elaborate, minute, narrow, particular, particularly, searching, thorough), abundent (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, copious, exuberant, flush, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profusely, rank, rich), din belşug (a-plenty, galore, greatly, high, in plenty, liberally, plenteously, plentifully, richly), cu largheţe, cu generozitate (handsomely, munificently, nobly, open-handedly, profusely), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off). (various references)

Russian		обильно (abundantly, affluently, prodigally, profusely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opširno (large: at large, lengthy), obimno (extensively, largely), dovoljno (adequately, aplenty, enough, satis, satisfactorily, sufficiently). (various references)

Spanish		ampliamente (broadly). (various references)

Swedish		rikligt (freely, fully). (various references)

Turkish		fazlasıyla (damned, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, parlous, precious, strongly, superfluously), bolca (abundantly, aplenty, bountifully, galore, in abundance, largely, luxuriantly, plenty of, profusely), bol bol (abundantly, aplenty, effusively, galore, generously, in abundance, in armfuls, luxuriantly, plenty, profusely, richly, spacious, superabundant, superfluous, superfluously). (various references)

Ukranian		рясно (abundantly, bounteously, opulently, profusely), широко (abroad, broad, broadly, extensively, loosely, open-mindedly, wide, widely), обширно, просторо (loose), пишно (opulently), достатньо (enough, sufficiently), досить (belay, deep, drop it, enough, fairly, nothing else, nuff, once, passable, plenty, pretty, relatively, say no more, something, sufficiently), докладно (at large, circumstantiality, closely, microscopically, minutely, narrowly, particularly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	laxe, prolixius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "amply": damply. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amply" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amilly, Ampey, Ampsys, Ampy, Amulya, anely, angly, aplly, aply, apoly, Armaly, Arpley, asmalyk, atpl, empl, empli, emply, Mably, mapley, Mappy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amply" (pronounced a"mplē)
4	-m p l ē	simply.
3	-p l ē	cheaply, crisply, deeply, panoply, principally, reapply, shapely, sharply, steeply.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: palmy.
	Words within the letters "a-l-m-p-y"
	-1 letter: amyl, lamp, palm, paly, play.
	-2 letters: alp, amp, lam, lap, lay, map, may, pal, pam, pay, ply, pya, yam, yap.
	-3 letters: al, am, ay, la, ma, my, pa, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-m-p-y"
	+1 letter: damply.
	+2 letters: amplify, campily, lamprey, maypole, misplay, nymphal, palmary, palmyra, polyoma.
	+3 letters: empyreal, ladypalm, lampreys, lampyrid, lymphoma, mayapple, maypoles, misapply, misplays, olympiad, palimony, palmyras, playmate, playroom, playtime, polygamy, polymath, polyomas, psalmody, ptyalism, tympanal.
	+4 letters: amblyopia, amblyopic, amphiboly, amplidyne, ampullary, amylopsin, blasphemy, compactly, cytoplasm, diplomacy, exemplary, homoplasy, ladypalms, lampyrids, lymphatic, lymphomas, mayapples, misplayed, nymphalid, olympiads, optimally, palmately, palmistry, paramylum, playmaker, playmates, playrooms, playtimes, polyamide, polyamine, polygamic, polymaths, polymathy, primality, primarily, ptyalisms, pulmonary, pyramidal, rampantly, sympetaly, sympodial.
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