replete
filled full; abundantly supplied
Roots
- plen / plet: fill, full, complete
- re-: back, again, or backward motion
Other words with the plen / plet root
- complement: something that completes another thing
- complementary: completing or fitting well with something
- complete: finished; lacking nothing
- completion: the act or state of finishing
- compliant: willing to obey or go along
- deplete: to use up or empty out
- depletion: reduction by using up
- plenary: complete or fully attended
Plet / plen gives fullness. Replete means filled up, sometimes almost too full.
The report was replete with details but strangely short on judgment.
Replete is fullness you can feel. A table can be replete with food; an essay can be replete with examples. The danger is that fullness can become clutter.