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See definition of plethoric on Dictionary.com
  • as inexcessive
  • as infull
  • as inoverabundant
  • as inovermuch

synonyms for plethoric

  • disproportionate
  • enormous
  • exaggerated
  • exorbitant
  • extra
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • inordinate
  • needless
  • redundant
  • steep
  • superfluous
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unreasonable
  • boundless
  • dissipated
  • dizzying
  • immoderate
  • indulgent
  • intemperate
  • limitless
  • more
  • over
  • overboard
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • recrementitious
  • self-indulgent
  • sky-high
  • stiff
  • stratospheric
  • super
  • superabundant
  • supernatural
  • too many
  • towering
  • unbounded
  • unmeasurable
  • way-out

antonyms for plethoric

MOST RELEVANT
  • cheap
  • close
  • economical
  • essential
  • inexpensive
  • low
  • mild
  • moderate
  • necessary
  • needed
  • reasonable
  • sensible
  • insufficient
  • underdone
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    How to use plethoric in a sentence

    The third figure—strikingly unlike the other two—was a man of fifty or thereabouts, short and plethoric.
    THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE, VOL. I (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVER
    The suppression has a plethoric effect, and must be removed by the evacuation; therefore we begin with bleeding.
    THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERANONYMOUS
    How it came to impose itself on the plethoric patriotism of the Morning Post is a mystery which may be worth investigating.
    THE MYTH OF THE JEWISH MENACE IN WORLD AFFAIRSLUCIEN WOLF
    Some practitioners recommend emetics, and bleeding if the patient be of a full plethoric habit.
    THE MATRON'S MANUAL OF MIDWIFERY, AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY AND IN CHILDBEDFREDERICK HOLLICK
    It may also be caused by a plethoric or too full habit, the lungs then being in reality congested.
    THE MATRON'S MANUAL OF MIDWIFERY, AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY AND IN CHILDBEDFREDERICK HOLLICK
    He had long since given up plug and fine-cut and taken to fat Havanas, which he smoked audibly, in plethoric wheezes.
    THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGER
    How little would he have foreseen the present plethoric, steam-driving, world-conquering England!
    THE CLAIMS OF LABOURARTHUR HELPS
    A discharge of ink was an evacuation absolutely necessary to avoid fatal and plethoric congestion.'
    CASTLE RACKRENTMARIA EDGEWORTH
    Peter was pinguid, plump, and plethoric—she was thin to attenuation.
    THE BUNSBY PAPERSJOHN BROUGHAM
    They led him into a great variety of speculations, but from one and all he emerged plethoric with dimes.
    TIN-TYPES TAKEN IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORKLEMUEL ELY QUIGG
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