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most numerous

ADJECTIVE

many, abundant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

big diverse great large plentiful various

WEAK

copious infinite legion lousy with multifarious multitudinal multitudinous populous profuse rife scads several sundry thick umpteen voluminous zillion

Antonyms

STRONGEST

little miniature similar small tiny uniform unimportant

WEAK

deficient few lacking

Example Sentences

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The most numerous are the fall-run Chinook, which fishers catch commercially and recreationally along the coast when salmon numbers are high enough.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Americans, UK citizens and Chinese nationals, who are some of the museum's most numerous foreign visitors, will be among those affected, as will tourists from poorer countries.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Prior to the year 2000, the starling was regularly the most numerous species recorded in the survey.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Although many small insects visited the flowers, Amystrops sap beetles were the most numerous.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

There were few engagements with the enemy at that time—the rebels, we suspected, had little powder and less spirit—so the most numerous deaths were from distempers and disorders.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson