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replete

UK/ɹɪˈpliːt/US/ɹɪˈpliːt/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,331 of 15,258leans written

Replete means filled to overflowing with something. Replete with detail.

It takes with and is formal, and it is also used of somebody who has eaten well. A book replete with anything usually has too much of it.

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Definitions of replete

  1. 1adjectiverepleteFilled to overflowing with something.C2

    “The report was replete with figures and short of conclusions.”

replete is a quality.

Remember it

REPLETE → served and REPEATedly served until full

They keep serving you more, and you are past full before they stop.

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Where it comes from

Latin repletus comes from replere, to fill up, from re plus plere, to fill.

  1. Latin

    repletus

  2. Old French

    replet

  3. Middle English

    replete

  4. English, today

    replete

From Middle English replete and repleten, from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

replete in the wild

  • Most of the residents are employed in various industries that are replete here.

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.