Vocabulary
Plethora
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a large or excessive amount of something.
Urdu meaning
فروانی، بہتات،ڈھیر ساری
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Both legal certainty and investor confidence are shaken when faced with huge case backlogs, a plethora of special courts and tribunals, and judicial appointments widely seen as opaque.
Dawn Editorials —
Governing beyond diagnosis
— 2026-02-07
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How is the country `unified` when there exists a plethora of faultlines social, political, ethnic, sectarian, regional, institutional and civil-military?
Dawn Editorials —
Our rapacious elites
— 2025-07-25
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The plethora of challenges facing the country today calls for competent and bold leadership that understands Pakistan`s deep-seated problems and has the will and capacity to solve them.
Dawn Editorials —
The leadership deficit
— 2025-04-21
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There exists a plethora of policies, plans and reports related solely to air quality improvement in Pakistan, dating back nearly two decades, which point to our penchant for introducing new policies only to see them fail, again and again.
Dawn Editorials —
Missing the bigger picture
— 2024-12-07
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These are just a few in a plethora of judgments.
Dawn Editorials —
The ever-elusive stability
— 2024-09-15
Synonyms
excess, abundance, overabundance, superfluity, surfeit, profusion, more than enough
Curator example
“a plethora of committees and subcommittees”
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