Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Wednesday Word ~ plethora

Plethora = a large or excessive amount of (something).

Synonyms include excess, overabundance, superabundance, surplus, glut, superfluity, surfeit, profusion; too many, too much, enough and to spare.  Informally, you could use the phrase "more than I can shake a stick at."

I don't know the exact source of this 2014 cartoon by Scott Kilburn (whose name is at the bottom left), but I've run across it several times on the internet.  I love that the character Nichols defines the word while acknowledging the boss.

1 comment:

Helen's Book Blog said...

Plethora is one of my favorite words, so thank you for this cartoon!