MEANING
1. Full of something, especially with a rich or plentiful supply of it.
2. Having eaten enough to feel fully satisfied or pleasantly full.
Use it for
describing something containing many examples or details; showing a place richly supplied with a feature; giving abundance a formal rather than casual registerSeparates being richly supplied with something from the older, bodily state of being fully fed. Writing functions: Description / Abundant contents.
Words that belong together
- replete with detail
- replete with possibilities
- replete with contradictions
On the page
The notebook was replete with details that never reached the official account.
The hall, replete with painted birds and gilded leaves, seemed to contain a second garden.
Pleasantly replete, the guests lingered beside the dying fire.
He sat back, replete after supper but still unable to relax.
Word forms
- Base
- replete
Usage notes
Adjective, commonly after a verb and followed by with. Not routinely inflected for comparison. The food sense is usually predicative. Historical verbal use is outside this entry’s current adjective focus. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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