ample

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.

Adjective

  1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.
    • We have an ample supply of water
    • She has a very ample bosom.
    • [H]e was satisfied that Alice yet lived; he hoped she might yet escape and return. […] He enriched Mrs. Jones for life, in gratitude for her vindication of his lost and early love: he promised the amplest rewards for...
  2. Very adequate.
    • It was pointed out to me that the security was ample, and as I had no practical knowledge of house-valuing there was nothing to be gained by inspecting it. - 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:
  3. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive
    • an ample story

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s Proto-Italic *amlos? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Italic *plēnosder. Latin plēnus? Latin ambiplus? Latin amplus Old French ample Middle French amplebor. Middle English ample English ample From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”).

Forms

ampler amplest

Synonyms

full spacious extensive wide capacious abundant plentiful plenteous copious bountiful rich liberal munificent

Related

amplifiable amplification amplificatory amplifier amplify amplitude

Derived

ampleness semiample

Determiner

  1. A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.
    • We have ample time to finish the task.
    • It is a large house with ample space for all of us.
    • …a broad and ample road, whose dust is gold… - 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book II)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_II):
  2. A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.
    • We don't need any more. We already have ample.