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/ˈplɛθəɹɪk/ · adjective
(medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood..
a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.
If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.
Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack! See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack, In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!
Use plethoric when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plethoric means (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood..
Common synonyms include abundant, rife, overabundant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a horse-leech, whose deep maw The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill, And who, till full, will cling for ever.
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