N. multitude, numerous,
numerosity, numerality,
multiplicity,
profusion,
legion, host, great number, large number, round number, enormous number, a quantity, numbers,
array, sight, army, sea,
galaxy, scores,
peck,
bushel,
shoal,
swarm, draught,
bevy, cloud, flock,
herd, drove, flight,
covey,
hive,
brood,
litter,
farrow,
fry, nest, crowd, lots, all in the world and his wife, greater number, majority,
multiplication,
multiple V. be numerous, swarm with, teem with, creep with, crowd,
swarm, come thick upon, outnumber, multiply, people, swarm like locusts, swarm like bees
Adj. many, several,
sundry,
divers, various, not a few,
briarean, a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one, some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c, half a dozen, half a hundred &c, very many, full many, ever so many, numerous, numerose,
profuse, in profusion,
manifold, multiplied,
multitudinous,
multiple,
multinominal,
teeming,
populous, peopled, crowded, thick,
studded,
galore, thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of, no end of, no end to, cum multis aliis, thick as hops, thick as hail, plenty as blackberries, numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head, and what not, and heaven knows what, endless
Phr. their name is "legion", acervatim, en foule, "many- headed multitude", "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew", vel prece vel pretio
N. diffuseness,
amplification,
dilating,
verbosity,
verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness,
polylogy,
tautology,
battology, perissology|,
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy, thrice-told tale,
prolixity,
circumlocution,
ambages,
periphrase,
periphrasis, roundabout phrases,
episode,
expletive, pennya-lining, richness
V. be diffuse, run out on,
descant,
expatiate,
enlarge,
dilate,
amplify,
expand,
inflate, launch out, branch out,
rant,
maunder, prose, harp upon, dwell on, insist upon,
digress,
ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn,
protract, spin out, swell out, draw out,
battologize Adj. diffuse,
profuse,
wordy,
verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant,
pleonastic,
lengthy,
longsome,
long-winded,
longspun, long drawn out, spun out,
protracted,
prolix, prosing,
maundering,
circumlocutory,
periphrastic,
ambagious,
roundabout,
digressive,
discursive,
excursive, loose, rambling episodic,
flatulent,
frothy Adv. diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it
N. redundancy,
redundance, too much, too many,
superabundance,
superfluity, superfluence|,
saturation,
nimiety,
transcendency,
exuberance,
profuseness,
profusion,
repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough,
plethora,
engorgement,
congestion, load,
surfeit, sickener,
turgescence,
overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow,
inundation,
avalanche, accumulation,
heap,
drug, drug in the market,
glut, crowd, burden, excess,
surplus,
overplus,
epact, margin, remainder,
duplicate,
surplusage,
expletive, work of supererogation,
bonus,
bonanza,
luxury,
intemperance,
extravagance,
exorbitance,
lavishment,
pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses
V. superabound, overabound, know no bounds,
swarm, meet one at every turn, creep with, crawl with, bristle with, overflow, run over, flow over, well over, brim over, run riot, overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge,
overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload,
overdo,
overwhelm, overshoot the mark,
surcharge,
supersaturate,
gorge,
glut, load,
drench,
whelm,
inundate,
deluge, flood,
drug, drug the market,
hepatize,
choke,
cloy,
accloy,
suffocate, pile up, lay on thick, impregnate with,
lavish, send coals to newcastle, carry coals to newcastle, carry owls to athens, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, pisces natare docere, kill the slain, "gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon, employ a steam engine to crack a nut,
exaggerate, wallow in roll in remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging
Adj. redundant, too much, too many,
exuberant,
inordinate,
superabundant, excessive, overmuch,
replete,
profuse,
lavish,
prodigal,
exorbitant,
overweening,
extravagant, overcharged,
supersaturated,
drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing,
gorged, ready to burst,
dropsical,
turgid,
plethoric,
obese,
superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous|, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop,
adscititious,
supernumerary, on one's hands,
spare,
duplicate,
supererogatory,
expletive, un peu fort
Adv. over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with, to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim
Phr. it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, 2. degree of subservience
N. prodigality, prodigence|,
unthriftiness, waste,
profusion,
profuseness,
extravagance,
squandering,
malversation,
prodigal,
spendthrift, waste thrift,
losel,
squanderer,
locust, high roller*
V. be prodigal,
squander,
lavish, sow broadcast, pour forth like water, blow, blow in*, pay through the nose,
spill, waste,
dissipate,
exhaust,
drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable, run out, run through,
misspend, throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet, burn the candle at both ends, make ducks and drakes of one's money, fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money, pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, manger son ble en herbe
Adj. prodigal,
profuse,
thriftless,
unthrifty,
improvident, wasteful,
losel,
extravagant,
lavish,
dissipated, overliberal, full-handed, penny wise and pound foolish
Adv. with an unsparing hand, money burning a hole in one's pocket
Phr. amor nummi, facile largiri de alieno, wie gewonnen so zerronnen, les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent, "spendthrift alike of money and of wit", "squandering wealth was his peculiar art"
