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語源

From bounty +‎ -ful.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbaʊntɪfəl/, /ˈbaʊntəfəl/
  • (米国発音) IPA: [ˈbaʊ̯n(ɾ)əfəɫ]
  • (英国発音, also) IPA: /ˈbaʊntɪfʌl/

形容詞

bountiful (comparative more bountiful, superlative most bountiful)

1. Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.

   They enjoyed a wet summer and a bountiful harvest.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 32:5:

     The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

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