replete

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/ɹɪˈpliːt/

adjective

Abounding, amply provided.

“A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivereplete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)

comparative more replete · superlative most replete

  1. Abounding, amply provided.

    A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.

    5 more examples

    A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway His subjects with delight obey: His tail was beauteous to behold, Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

    1730, Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark

    I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.

    1759, Samuel Johnson, “chapter 12”, in Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

    "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."

    1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

    History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.

    1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Seneca”, in Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers

    Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.

    2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times

    Synonyms: plentiful, abundant

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

    And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]

    1901, Bret Harte, “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”, in Under the Redwoods
    1 more example

    In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]

    1913, Jack London, “chapter15”, in The Valley of the Moon

    Synonyms: stuffed

  3. category theoryIsomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
nounreplete (plural repletes)

plural repletes

verbreplete (third-person singular simple present repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)

present singular third person repletes · participle present repleting · participle past repleted · past repleted

  1. transitiveTo fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAbounding, amply provided.

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

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivefilled to satisfaction with food or drink

adjective(followed by ‘with’) deeply filled or permeated

verbfill to satisfaction

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinrepletus
  2. Old Frenchreplet
  3. Middle Englishreplete
  4. Englishreplete

From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

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Translations

Bulgarian пълен, напълнен
  • пълен (pălen)abounding
  • напълнен (napălnen)abounding
  • изоби́лен (izobílen)abounding
  • изоби́лстващ (izobílstvašt)abounding
  • преситен (presiten)filled to bursting
  • препълнен (prepălnen)filled to bursting
  • запъ́лвам (zapắlvam)Translations
  • запъ́лня (zapắlnja)Translations
Catalan replet, repleta
  • repletabounding
  • repletaabounding
Dutch bulkend
  • bulkendabounding
Finnish täynnä, kylläinen
  • täynnäabounding
  • kylläinenfilled to bursting
  • pullollaanfilled to bursting
  • täynnäfilled to bursting
German satt
  • sattabounding
Italian colmo, colma
  • colmoabounding
  • colmaabounding
  • ripienoabounding
  • ripienaabounding
  • pienoabounding
  • strapienofilled to bursting
  • strapienafilled to bursting
  • stracolmofilled to bursting
  • stracolmafilled to bursting
  • saziofilled to bursting
  • satollofilled to bursting
Latin fēcundus, replētus
  • fēcundusabounding
  • replētusfilled to bursting
  • repleōTranslations
Polish pełny, syty
  • pełnyabounding
  • sytyfilled to bursting
Portuguese repleto, repleta
  • repletoabounding
  • repletaabounding
  • cheiofilled to bursting
  • cheiafilled to bursting
Russian изоби́лующий, перепо́лненный
  • изоби́лующий (izobílujuščij)abounding
  • перепо́лненный (perepólnennyj)filled to bursting
Spanish repleto, repletar
  • repletoabounding
  • repletarTranslations
Swedish övermätt, proppmätt
  • övermättfilled to bursting
  • proppmättfilled to bursting
Ukrainian повний, переповнений
  • повний (povnyj)abounding
  • переповнений (perepovnenyj)filled to bursting

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

replete. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/replete

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Chicago

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