Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English. (old-fashioned or formal) very full of food We all felt pleasantly replete. Word OriginSee replete in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Check pronunciation: repleteNearby...
3.Usage ProblemComplete:a computer system replete with color monitor, printer, and software. n. A specialized worker in a honey ant colony that stores food in its distensible abdomen for later use by other members of the colony. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latinreplētus, past ...
“Replete” usually means “stuffed,”“full to overflowing.” After eating a complete ten-course meal, you are replete.Although it has been used as a simple synonym for “complete,” this is now an unusual usage, and it is better to stick with the more
3.Usage ProblemComplete:a computer system replete with color monitor, printer, and software. n. A specialized worker in a honey ant colony that stores food in its distensible abdomen for later use by other members of the colony. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latinreplētus, past ...