replete

/ri'pli:t/

Thân thiện

The museum's exhibit is replete with ancient artifacts.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Deeply filled, abundantly supplied: "Replete" describes something that is completely full or abundantly supplied with something, often to the point of being saturated or well-stocked.
   • Filled to satisfaction with food or drink: Specifically, it can describe the state of being full after eating or drinking.

2. Verb:

   • To fill to satisfaction; to sate: The verb form means to fill something completely, especially to satisfy fully, as with food or drink.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:

  • The report was replete with detailed statistics and charts. (The report was abundantly filled with detailed data.)
  • After the feast, we felt completely replete and could eat no more. (We felt fully satisfied with food.)
  • The library is replete with rare manuscripts from the 15th century. (The library is deeply filled with rare books.)

• Verb (less common, often used in a literary or formal context):

  • The magnificent banquet repleted the guests. (The feast filled the guests to satisfaction.)

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• "Replete with": This is the most common construction. It emphasizes that something is filled or abundantly supplied with a particular thing, often implying richness or completeness.
  • His speech was replete with historical references.
• The adjective often carries a formal or literary tone. In everyday speech about being full from food, "full" or "stuffed" is more common than "replete."

Variants and Related Words

• Repletion (noun): The state of being replete; fullness, especially from eating.
  • He ate to repletion.
• Complete (adjective): Having all parts or elements; finished. (Shares the Latin root , meaning "to fill," but "complete" means "thoroughly filled" in the sense of being whole or finished.)

Synonyms

• Adjective: Full, brimming, abounding, teeming, laden, stuffed, sated, satiated.
• Verb: Fill, sate, satiate, glut.

Antonyms

• Adjective: Empty, devoid, lacking, hungry.
• Verb: Deplete, drain, empty.

Notes on Different Meanings

• The primary modern use is as an adjective meaning "full of" or "well-supplied with." The verbal use is rare.
• When describing a person after a meal, "replete" suggests a pleasant, satisfied fullness, not an uncomfortable one (which might be "stuffed" or "overfull").

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated
   • imbued with the spirit of the Reformation
   • words instinct with love
   • it is replete with misery
2. filled to satisfaction with food or drink
   • a full stomach

Verb

1. fill to satisfaction
   • I am sated

Từ đồng nghĩa

• instinct
• replete
• full
• satiate
• sate
• fill