Ample

Definitions: Ample

Ample

Adjective

1. More than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply".

2. Affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply".

3. Fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ample" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ample \Am"ple\, adjective. [French expression ample, from Latin expression amplus, probably for ambiplus full on both sides, the last syllable akin to Latin plenus full. See Full, and compare to Double.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ample

Breadth, Thickness

Adjective: broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; "wide as a church-door";

Greatness

Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.

Size

Adjective: large, big; great; (in quantity); considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.

Space

Adjective: spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless; (infinite); shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended.

Sufficiency

Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.

Crosswords: Ample

Catalan (broad), French (ample, broad, bulky, extensive, full, generous, goodly, grand, rich, roomy, sizable, spacious, thorough, vast, wide).

We have ample opportunities in this court for learning what women mean, or what they mean they mean if in these days they mean anything at all. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)

I never knew her breasts were so ample. (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Yes, but see, the clock stops ringing once I throw it against the wall giving me ample time to fall back to sleep. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing an Ample Survey and Description of Its Counties, Towns, Cities, Villages, Canals, Mountains, Lakes, (reference)

• Ample Field: Books and Young People (reference)

• Ample Mansions: The Viceregal Residences of the Canadian Provinces (reference)

• Ample Time (reference)

• Designs for elegant cottages and small villas: calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• This Is Ample, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Between the devil and -- ; Ample warning.Credit: Library of Congress.

Chinaberry tree in yard of Joseph LaBlanc. Crowley, Louisiana. These trees grow quickly and produce ample shade in two years.Credit: Library of Congress.

These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State Refinery, at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies for the high-grade lubricants needed to operate ships, guns, tanks,.Credit: Library of Congress.

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-g.Credit: Library of Congress.

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-g.Credit: Library of Congress.

Streets of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense workers village are broad and well paved, ample for the traffic of this rapidly expanding housing project. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Come along - learn something, see something in the U.S. Navy Ample shore leave for inland sights / / painted by James H. Daugherty ; Press Navy Recruiting Bureau N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There must be ample room in it for every real comfort.

The trees have ample room to expand on the water side, and each sends forth its most vigorous branch in that direction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Provide a relaxed home environment that provides ample opportunities for the child to speak. (references)

There are ample data to support the antimicrobial eradication of H. pylori infection in patients with peptic ulcer disease. (references)

In addition, ample clinical experience, supported by some research data, suggests that acupuncture may be a reasonable option for a number of clinical conditions. (references)

Business

Given this ample supply of adult laborers, most employers in China choose not to risk fines and possible arrest by hiring underage workers. (references)

Other companies, such as Miss Ylang, have resorted to an affordable price marketing policy, offering an ample product mix, frequently updated to follow changing fashion demands. (references)

Of the three ports, the Port of Gdansk has the biggest potential for growth, thanks to the availability of ample land for expansion of the port and its maximum draught 15 meters. (references)

Children

Cote d'Ivoire

The country's cities and farms still provide ample opportunities for traffickers, especially of children and women. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

Taiwan has an ample supply of well-educated and skilled workers. (references)

Costa Rica

Costa Rica has an ample pool of professionals, educated at both Costa Rican and foreign universities. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

Defendants have the right to know the charges against them and are given ample time to prepare a defense. (references)

Taiwan

Police legally may arrest without a warrant anyone they suspect of committing a crime for which the punishment would be imprisonment of 5 years or more, when there is ample reason to believe the person may flee. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

Relationship with Creditors: Citing its growing foreign exchange reserves and ample food stocks, India chose not to negotiate an extended financing facility with the IMF when its standby arrangement expired in May 1993. In October 1998, Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgraded India's foreign currency rating from BB+ to BB. In October 1999, Moody's upgraded India's foreign currency rating outlook from stable to positive while maintaining an unchanged speculative grade rating of Ba2. (references)

Trade

Thailand

Liquidity is ample, and local lending interest rates remain at historic lows for Thailand . Minimum lending (prime) rates at Thai commercial banks average 7-8 percent. (references)

Honduras

Until the mid-1980's, Honduras' development strategy was based on the import substitution model, supported by protectionist measures and ample public sector intervention. (references)

Travel

South Africa

Drinking water is both ample and safe. (references)

Worker Rights

Solomon Islands

In practice the small percentage of the work force in formal employment means that employers have ample replacement workers if disputes are not resolved quickly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "ample": have ample time. Additional references.

Beginning with "ample": ample-backed, ample-bellied, ample-bottomed, ample-busted.

Albanian

i mjaftueshëm (adequate, enough, plenty, snug, sufficient), i gjerë (broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), i bollshëm (affluent, exuberant, fat, flush, fulsome, generous, good, hearty, heavy, lavish, liberal, man-sized, over, plenteous, plenty, profuse, spacious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسيح (broad, capacious, expansive, roomy, spacious, vast), ‏كثير (abundant, bags of, considerable, copious, lots of, many, much, numerous, overblown, plentiful), ‏مسهب (detailed, lengthy, prolix, redundant, verbose), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), ‏واسع (broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏عامر وافر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

широк (broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), обширен (broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vast, vasty, voluminous, wide), обилен (abundant, affluent, exuberant, full, generous, hearty, liberal, lusty, plentiful, rich, satisfying, ungrudging), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), предостатъчен (superabundant, superfluous), достатъчен (adequate, comfortable, competent, enough, good, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient), дебел (corpulent, dense, fat, obese, porky, puffy, pursy, stout, thick). (various references)

Chinese 

綽 (generous, spacious, well-off, wide), 博 (aim, and a half, extensive, half, incomplete, obtain, plentiful, rich, semi-, to gamble, to get, to win), 充份 (abundant, full, sufficient), 宽裕. (various references)

Czech

prostorný (capacious, commodious, roomy, spacious), hojný (abundant, copious, effusive, full, generous, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, superfluous), dostateèný (satisfactory, sufficient), bujný (abundant, coltish, Corky, exuberant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, thick, voluminous, wanton), bohatý (abundant, affluent, bounteous, bountiful, copious, extensive, exuberant, generous, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off). (various references)

Danish

spaendingen mellem elektroderne viste sig at vaere fuldt tilstraekkelig til at forhindre ionrekombinationi svage straalingsfelter (the interelectrode potential was found ample to prevent ion recombination in low exposure rate radiation fields), rigelige opsparing (ample saving). (various references)

Dutch

veelomvattend (bulky, comprehensive, extensive, sizable), uitgebreid (bulky, comprehensively, extensive, sizable, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Esperanto

ampleksa (bulky, extensive). (various references)

Farsi 

فراوان (Abundant, Affluent, Bounteous, Copious, Exuberant, Galore, Plenty, Profuse, Prolific, Rampant, Rife, Superabundant, Unsparing, Very), فراخ (Spacious, Wide), پهناور (Broad, Extensive, Immense, Vast, Wide), پر (Full, Plume, Populous, Rife), مفصل (Copious, Copula, Hinge, Joint, Juncture, Spacious, Voluminous), وسیع (Abroad, Captious, Comprehensive, Extensive, Immense, Large, Roomy, Spacious, Vast, Wide), بیش ازاندازه (Excessive). (various references)

Finnish

runsas (abundant, copious, full, full bodied, full falvour, full taste, full-bodied, fullness, large, meaty, plentiful, profuse, rich, robust), karttuisa (abundant). (various references)

French

ample, large. (various references)

German

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

Greek 

επαρκώσ (sufficiently), επαρκήσ (adequate, competent, sufficient), ευρύσ (blanket, broad, large, sweeping, wide). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרוב�" (many, much, multiple, numerous), מספיק (adequate, enough, sufficient), רווח (extended, roomy, spacing, spacious, wide), � רחב (broad, extensive, far reaching, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Hungarian

terjedelmes (big, broad, bulky, expanded, expansive, extensive, great, large, sizable, spacious, voluminous), tágas (capacious, commodious, large, roomy, spacious), elegendő (competent, suffice, sufficient, to suffice). (various references)

Italian

ampio (broad, full, large, loose, roomy, spacious, sweeping, vast, wide), abbondante (abundant, affluent, broad, bumper, copious, flush, free, full, generous, large, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rife), vasto (distant, extensive, far, large, long, multitudinous, remote, roomy, sweeping, vast, wide, widely), sufficiente (adequate, comfortable, enough, fair, haughty, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient), spazioso (capacious, commodious, large, roomy, spacious, wide), bastevole (sufficient). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

たった今 (bitterling, each time, every time, full, in plenty, just now, whenever, with difficulty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たっぷり (full, in plenty). (various references)

Korean 

충분한 (Adequate, sufficient). (various references)

Manx

skyoltagh (superfluous), dy liooar (adequate, enough, galore, umpteen). (various references)

Pig Latin

ampleay

Portuguese

amplo (all-embracing, broad, bulky, commodious, extensive, full, large, loose, open, plump, roomy, spacious, vast, wide), extenso (broad, bulky, comprehensive, expansivity, extensive, far flung, farrier, flyaway, large, long, slip on, spacious, sweeping, vast, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Romanian

amplu (abundant, amply, extensive, fully, good, handsomely, lush, rich, spacious), abundent (abundant, abundantly, affluent, amply, copious, exuberant, flush, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profusely, rank, rich), vast (broad, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, vast, wide), suficient (adequate, adequately, conceited, duly, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficiently), spaţios (broad, commodious, large, roomy, spacious, wide), potrivit (according, according to, adequate, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, assorted, average, becoming, befitting, commensurate, condign, congenial, congruous, conservative, correct, corresponding, decorous, due, duly, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in point, likely, middling, moderate, moderately, opportune, Pat, proper, pursuant to, right, seemly, suitable, suited, to), mare (acred, adult, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), larg (broad, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, loose, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast, wide), destul (enough, let it suffice, some, stop, sufficient, sufficiently, that will do), cuprinzãtor (broad, compendious, comprehensive, extensive, far reaching, inclusive, long range, open-mindedly, wide), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, amply, 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), îndestulãtor (enough, sufficient). (various references)

Russian 

обширный (big, broad, expansive, extended, extensive, far flung, far-flung, large, long, rangy, spacious, vast, voluminous, wide-ranging), обильный (abundant, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, torrential, ungrudging), достаточный (adequate, comfortable, competent, decent 2, enough, sufficient). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obiman (capacious, comprehensive, extensive, large, massive, massy, spacious, voluminous), obilan (abundant, affluent, bounteous, bountiful, copious, flush, full, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, torrential, unsparing), bujan (curvaceous, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, thick, torrential, wild). (various references)

Spanish

amplio (capacious, comprehensive, extensive, full, full scale, generous, large, spacious, volume, wide, widespread). (various references)

Swedish

ymnig (abondant, abudant, abundant, bounteous, exuberant, lavish, plentiful), riklig (abudant, abundant, bountiful, copious, full, generous, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, plenteous, rich, right), dryg (bumptious, compact, hard, heavy, large, lasting, liberal, self-important). (various references)

Turkish

yeterli (adequate, competent, decent, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, fit, qualified, satisfactory, satisfying, snug, sufficient, suited, that will do, working), kâfi (enough, sufficient), iri (big, bulky, chopping, corpulent, large, massive, portly), heybetli (baronial, dreadfull, formidable, grandiose, imposing, majestic, monumental, redoubtable, solemn, stately, tremendous), geniş (broad, broadly, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmical, expansive, extended, extensive, full, large, obtuse, open, roomy, spacious, splay, vast, walk in, wide), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), büyük (almighty, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukranian 

рясний (abundant, copious, exuberant, fertile, lavish, opulent, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich, torrential), цілком достатній, широкий (big, broad, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, sweeping, vast, wide), місткий (capacious, roomy), багатий (abundant, affluent, bounteous, copious, moneyed, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, pursy, redundant, rich, rife, superb, wealthy, well off), просторий (acred, broad, capacious, commodious, expansive, extensive, far flung, loose, omnibus, rangy, space, spacious, wide), докладний (circumstantial, copious, detailed, explicit, minute, nice, particular, play-by-play), довгий (gaunt, great, long, side, tall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rộng (broad, broadly, capacious, extensive, far-flung, large, splay, wide), phong phú (abounding, abundant, a-plenty, copious, meaty, multifarious, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rich, richly), lụng thụng nhiều, dư dật (abundant). (various references)

Welsh

ymwng (frequent, many), helaeth (abundant, extensive), eang (broad, immense, wide), digon (done, enough, plenty, sufficient), cyflawn (complete, entire, full). (various references)

ampliorem, ampliori, amplioris, amplius, amplus, auctum, auctus, auctusque, capax, prolixae, prolixior, prolixius, spatiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ample": ampleness, amplenesses, ampler, amplest, amplexus, amplexuses. (additional references)

Words ending with "ample": counterexample, ensample, example, resample, sample, subsample, trample. (additional references)

Words containing "ample": champleve, champleves, counterexamples, ensamples, exampled, examples, resampled, resamples, sampled, sampler, samplers, samples, stampless, subsampled, subsamples, trampled, trampler, tramplers, tramples, unexampled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ample" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aemula, Amala, Amalek, amele, amlee, ampe, ampex, Ampey, Amplatz, Amplex, ampre, ampwle, amulree, Anpe, anpulla, apale, aple, aplu, apme, Arpel, Arpley, atpl, Aumale, empel, empl, Empleo, empli, Gampola, hanple, implu, maplet, mapley, mapple, mple. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: maple.

-1 letter: alme, lame, lamp, leap, male, meal, pale, palm, peal, plea.

-2 letters: ale, alp, amp, ape, elm, lam, lap, lea, mae, map, mel, pal, pam, pea.

-3 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me, pa, pe.

+1 letter: ampler, ampule, empale, impale, lamped, maples, palmed, palmer, sample.

+2 letters: amplest, ampoule, ampules, bedlamp, clamped, clamper, empaled, empaler, empales, empanel, emplace, emplane, example, exempla, impaled, impaler, impales, impanel, impearl, implead, lampers, lamprey, lempira, maniple, maplike, maypole, palmate, palmers, palmier, plumage, plumate, premeal, psalmed, rampole, sampled, sampler, samples, templar, trample.

+3 letters: amplexus, ampoules, ampullae, bedlamps, clampers, compleat, empalers, empaling, empanels, emplaced, emplaces, emplaned, emplanes, empyreal, ensample, episomal, exampled, examples, exemplar, headlamp, helpmate, impalers, impanels, impearls, imperial, impleads, lampases, lampreys, lempiras, malapert, malposed, manciple, maniples, mappable, mayapple, maypoles, megalops, misplace, misplead, napalmed, neoplasm, palmated, palmette, palmetto, palmiest, palmlike, pamphlet, placeman, placemen, playmate, playtime, pleonasm, plumaged, plumages, plumeria, preamble, preflame, premolar, premoral, primeval, proemial, rampoles, resample, samplers, templars, template, temporal, trampled, trampler, tramples.

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