abounding

adjective

abound·​ing ə-ˈbau̇n-diŋ 

: existing in or providing a great or plentiful quantity or supply

It's simply full of … villains, impossible heroics and abounding clichés.

—Newgate Callendar

My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done …

—Maya Angelou

an area of research abounding in/with new developments

aboundingly adverb

I studied him with the attention and respect that a younger man pays to an exemplary older one, and I was aboundingly repaid.

—Wendell Berry

Synonyms

• abundant
• awash
• flush
• fraught
• lousy
• replete
• rife
• swarming
• teeming
• thick
• thronging

Examples of abounding in a Sentence

a city abounding with inviting parks

it's a new field abounding in job opportunities

Word History

First Known Use

1560, in the meaning defined above