Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
fill, have one’s fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in &c. (superabundance) 641; wanton.
     abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour
in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.
     render sufficient &c.  Adj.; replenish &c. (fill) 52. 
     Adj. sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate,
competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.
     measured; moderate &c. (temperate) 953.
     full.&c. (complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as
blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless[obs3]; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish &c. 641; wholesale.
     rich; luxuriant &c. (fertile) 168; affluent &c. (wealthy) 803;
wantless[obs3]; big with &c. (pregnant) 161.
     unexhausted[obs3], unwasted[obs3]; exhaustless, inexhaustible. 
     Adv. sufficiently, amply &c.  Adj.; full; in abundance &c. n. with no
sparing hand; to one’s heart’s content, ad libitum, without stint. 
     Phr. “cut and come again” [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug[Ger].

     #640.  Insufficiency. —­ N. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness;
incompetence &c. (impotence) 158; deficiency &c. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection &c. 651; shortcoming &c. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c. (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.
     scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition,
starvation, famine, drought.
     dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations;
banyan day.
     emptiness, poorness &c.  Adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb
tide; low water; “a beggarly account of empty boxes” [Romeo and Jul.]; indigence &c. 804; insolvency &c. (nonpayment) 808. 
     V. be insufficient &c.  Adj.; not suffice &c. 639; come short of &c.
304 run dry.
     want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c. (poor) 804, live from
hand to mouth.
     render insufficient &c.  Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c.
(waste) 638; stint &c. (begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.
     do insufficiently &c. adv.; scotch the snake. 
     Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c. 32; not enough &c. 639;
unequal to; incompetent &c. (impotent) 158; “weighed in the balance and found wanting”; perfunctory &c. (neglect) 460; deficient &c. (incomplete) 53; wanting, &c. v.; imperfect &c. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.
     slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute
of, devoid of, bereft of &c. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.
     unprovided, unsupplied[obs3], unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed[obs3];
unstored[obs3], untreasured[obs3]; empty-handed.
     meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved,
starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

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