plethoric

形容词 adj.
/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/|/plɛˈθɒɹɪk/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. 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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more plethoric comparative most plethoric superlative

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