Tuesday word: Replete
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Replete (adjective, noun)
re·plete [ri-pleet]
adjective
1. abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
2. stuffed or gorged with food and drink.
3. complete: a scholarly survey, replete in its notes and citations.
noun
4. Entomology. (among honey ants) a worker with a distensible crop in which honeydew and nectar are stored for the use of the colony.
OTHER WORDS FROM REPLETE
re·plete·ly, adverb
re·plete·ness, noun
re·ple·tive, adjective
re·ple·tive·ly, adverb
WORDS RELATED TO REPLETE
rife, awash, filled, loaded, jammed, crowded, overflowing, teeming, lavish, abounding, packed, stuffed, charged, brimming, complete, crammed, gorged, sated, thronged, satiated
See synonyms for replete on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR REPLETE
2. sated, satiated, glutted, surfeited.
Origin: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English repleet, from Middle French replet, from Latin repletus, past participle of replere “to fill up,” equivalent to re- “again, again and again” + ple(re) “to fill” (akin to plenus “full”) + -tus past participle suffix; see re-, full
HOW TO USE REPLETE IN A SENTENCE
By the end of March, roll-up canvas sides, replete with windows, will replace what now look like shower curtains.
GLOVER PARK GRILL WOOS ITS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH ALL-AMERICAN COOKING|TOM SIETSEMA|MARCH 12, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
History is replete with examples of the so-called “Thucydides trap” articulated by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison.
HOW WE COULD SLEEPWALK INTO A WAR WITH CHINA|ELLIOT ACKERMAN|MARCH 9, 2021|TIME
The solutions and drawings you submitted were endlessly creative, replete with zig, zags and symmetries.
CAN YOU WIN RIDDLER JENGA?|ZACH WISSNER-GROSS|FEBRUARY 19, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The history of medicine is replete with innovations that took years, sometimes decades, to work their way into the mainstream.
HOW DO YOU CURE A COMPASSION CRISIS? (EP. 444)|STEPHEN J. DUBNER|DECEMBER 17, 2020|FREAKONOMICS
Replete (adjective, noun)
re·plete [ri-pleet]
adjective
1. abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
2. stuffed or gorged with food and drink.
3. complete: a scholarly survey, replete in its notes and citations.
noun
4. Entomology. (among honey ants) a worker with a distensible crop in which honeydew and nectar are stored for the use of the colony.
OTHER WORDS FROM REPLETE
re·plete·ly, adverb
re·plete·ness, noun
re·ple·tive, adjective
re·ple·tive·ly, adverb
WORDS RELATED TO REPLETE
rife, awash, filled, loaded, jammed, crowded, overflowing, teeming, lavish, abounding, packed, stuffed, charged, brimming, complete, crammed, gorged, sated, thronged, satiated
See synonyms for replete on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR REPLETE
2. sated, satiated, glutted, surfeited.
Origin: First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English repleet, from Middle French replet, from Latin repletus, past participle of replere “to fill up,” equivalent to re- “again, again and again” + ple(re) “to fill” (akin to plenus “full”) + -tus past participle suffix; see re-, full
HOW TO USE REPLETE IN A SENTENCE
By the end of March, roll-up canvas sides, replete with windows, will replace what now look like shower curtains.
GLOVER PARK GRILL WOOS ITS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH ALL-AMERICAN COOKING|TOM SIETSEMA|MARCH 12, 2021|WASHINGTON POST
History is replete with examples of the so-called “Thucydides trap” articulated by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison.
HOW WE COULD SLEEPWALK INTO A WAR WITH CHINA|ELLIOT ACKERMAN|MARCH 9, 2021|TIME
The solutions and drawings you submitted were endlessly creative, replete with zig, zags and symmetries.
CAN YOU WIN RIDDLER JENGA?|ZACH WISSNER-GROSS|FEBRUARY 19, 2021|FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The history of medicine is replete with innovations that took years, sometimes decades, to work their way into the mainstream.
HOW DO YOU CURE A COMPASSION CRISIS? (EP. 444)|STEPHEN J. DUBNER|DECEMBER 17, 2020|FREAKONOMICS
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Date: 2021-08-25 10:38 pm (UTC)