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Spell Bee Word: Abundant


What does abundant mean?

Word: Abundant

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Abundant means existing in large amounts; more than enough.

Synonyms: plentiful, ample, lavish

Antonyms: rare, insufficient

How do you spell abundant?

Syllables: a - bun - dant

Tricky part: The ending is ant, not ent. There is only one b.

Watch out for: abundent, abbundant, abundunt

Memory tip: Picture a busy ant carrying an abundant harvest: the word ends with ant. The noun keeps the a too, abundance.

Abundant in a sentence

Example 1: Kerala gets abundant rain during the monsoon.

Example 2: There was abundant food at my cousin's wedding, and we took boxes home.

Example 3: The forest has abundant bamboo, which the elephants love.

Fun Fact

Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust by weight, making up close to half of it, mostly locked inside rocks.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

abundant

a) scarce
b) generous
c) bountiful
d) copious

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a) scarce. Scarce means there is too little, the reverse of abundant.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ab_ndant

a) a
b) u
c) e
d) o

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b) u. Say a-BUN-dant: the middle is bun, written with a u.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dabnantu

a) abandon
b) abundance
c) attendant
d) abundant

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d) abundant. Abundant uses exactly these eight letters; abundance would need a c and an e.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) abundant
b) fragrant
c) plesant
d) elegant

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c) plesant. Pleasant keeps the ea of please; the other three are spelt correctly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If water is abundant in a village, the people there ____.

a) must walk far for it
b) have plenty of it
c) cannot drink it
d) have very little of it

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b) have plenty of it

2. A desert usually has an abundant supply of ____.

a) rain
b) sand
c) rivers
d) forests

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b) sand

Associated Words

Words that end in -dant: descendant, discordant, verdant

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: plentiful, ample, lavish, insufficient

More words from this list

authentic, commentary, disbursement, flustered, interrupt, obnoxious, refine, tenure

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