Replete

Word REPLETE
Character 7
Hyphenation re plete
Pronunciations /ɹɪˈpliːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Replete"

What do we mean by replete?

Abundantly supplied; abounding. adjective

Filled to satiation; gorged. adjective

Complete. adjective

A specialized worker in a honey ant colony that stores food in its distensible abdomen for later use by other members of the colony. noun

Filled up; completely filled; full; abounding.

One who or that which is replete or full; specifically, a worker-ant which stores such large quantities of honey-dew or other liquid food in its crop that its gaster is greatly distended and assumes a spherical or subspherical form; also plerergate. noun

To fill to repletion or satiety; fill full.

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. adjective

To fill completely, or to satiety. transitive verb

Abounding. adjective

Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink. adjective

A honeypot ant. noun

To restore something that has been depleted. verb

Filled to satisfaction with food or drink adjective

Fill to satisfaction verb

(followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated adjective

A honeypot ant.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Replete

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The word "replete" in example sentences

Huda Lutfi; "Democracy Is Coming," 2008; Sotheby 's estimate: $6,400 to $9,600 (Sotheby' s) Ms. Lutfi aspired to be a scholar of Islamic cultural history before embarking on an artistic career, and her paintings remain replete with coy and compelling references to Egyptian pop-culture, from singer Umm Kalthoum to modern warfare. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But this team has a name replete with an altogether different history. ❋ Freedland, Jonathan (2009)

a word replete with repulsive and disgraceful associations. ❋ John Charles Dent (1864)

Q: My father-in-law is prone to lapse into a sort of pidgin English replete with “hot-cha-cha's” and terms like “schnozzola” when talking to our five month-old son. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Rather than praise the Turks for their comparative freedom and democracy, terms replete in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's remarks in Cairo to almost all Middle East countries in June 2005, Mr. Biden focused on freedom of speech and its relationship to innovation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Van Meegeren was an outright collaborator during the Nazi occupation of Holland, charges Lopez, pointing to paintings he did in the 1940s under his own name replete with heroic images of the Volksgeist, "the essential spirit of the German people" touted by the Nazis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Impertinent claim: Today's president is content merely to reiterate the statement that history is "replete" with instances (about 200, he said last week) when presidents have used force without congressional authorization. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Leaves are "replete" (fully supported with nutrients) with water-conserving characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the contrary, the criminal code is "replete" with instances of "statutory elements that call for juries to use common sense to evaluate terms such as severe pain, serious bodily injury, severe mental or physical pain." ❋ Unknown (2007)

One of them has _three_ golf-courses of its own; several are _replete_ with every comfort (and is not "replete" the perfect epithet?). ❋ Various (N/A)

Wick's record is "replete" with intoxication, domestic abuse and intimidation offenses, he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Given that one of the roots of "replete" is the Latin verb "plēre," meaning ❋ Unknown (2008)

Many contemporary secular progressives have forgotten that the history of religion in America is replete with powerful examples of evangelical revival promoting social reform and equality. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Their language tells us that they dwelt in houses replete with that remarkable advance on simpler apertures, the door. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Finally, in the 1920s, following the arrival of the towering residential skyscraper replete with quality plumbing and reliable passenger elevator service clear up to roof level, the lackluster penthouse enjoyed a blessed upgrade. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

In the Yiddish press, according to Diner, “descriptions of Negro life in Harlem were replete with dancing, gyrating men and women, the sounds of bongo drums which one Tageblatt writer called ‘their national instrument’ resounded, and exuberant vibrant music filled the streets.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

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