different between myriad vs replete

English

Etymology

From French myriade, from Late Latin myriadis (genitive of myrias), from Ancient Greek ???????? (muriádos), genitive of ?????? (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from ?????? (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m??i.æd/, /?m??i.?d/

Noun

myriad (plural myriads)

1. (historical) Ten thousand; 10,000 [from 16th c.]
2. A countless number or multitude (of specified things) [from 16th c.]
   • 1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I:

     How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...

Related terms

• tens of thousands

Usage notes

Used as an adjective (see below), 'myriad' requires neither an article before it nor a preposition after. Because of this, some consider the usage described in sense 2 above, where 'myriad' acts as part of a nominal (or noun) group (that is, "a myriad of animals"), to be tautological.

Translations

Adjective

myriad (not comparable)

1. (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements [from 18th c.]
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 131:

     one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].

   • 2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", West End Word, 40 (7), p. 8:

     "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."

2. (modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous [from 18th c.]
   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.

Translations

See also

• plethora

Swedish

Noun

myriad c

1. a myriad

Declension

References

• myriad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

replete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)

1. Abounding.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, "The Pheasant and the Lark":

     A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway

     His subjects with delight obey:

     His tail was beauteous to behold,

     Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

   • 1759, Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, ch. 12:

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

   • 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 44:

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

   • 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers, "Seneca":

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

2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
   • 1901, Bret Harte, "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods:

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

   • 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 15:

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

Synonyms

• (abounding): plentiful, abundant
• (gorged): stuffed

Related terms

• repletion
• complete

Translations

Noun

replete (plural repletes)

1. A honeypot ant.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.

Anagrams

• peterel

Latin

Verb

repl?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reple?

Spanish

Verb

replete

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of repletar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of repletar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of repletar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of repletar.