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What is another word for Brimming? – 150 Brimming Synonyms

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    Synonyms & Similar Words

    overflowing teeming filled packed crowded overflowing abundant plentiful ample rich luxurious lavish copious profuse generous bountiful fertile fruitful prolific lush verdant green thriving flourishing booming bursting gushing spilling running flowing streaming surging swelling welling

    Meaning of Brimming

    The primary meaning of "brimming" is being completely full or overflowing.

    Definitions

    • Being completely full or overflowing
    • * Having a large or excessive amount of something
    • * Feeling or showing a strong and enthusiastic emotion

    Etymology of Brimming

    The word "brimming" originated from the Old English word "brymman", which means to fill to the brim or be full to the top
    It is related to the Old Norse word "brymja", which means to surge or foam
    The word has been used in English since the 15th century to describe something that is full or overflowing

    Example Uses

    • The cup was brimming with coffee, and she had to be careful not to spill it
    • * Her eyes were brimming with tears as she said goodbye to her loved one
    • * The city was brimming with energy and excitement during the festival

    Antonyms & Near Antonyms

    empty vacant bare barren deserted depleted drained exhausted hollow lean meager poor scant scarce shallow sparse shrunken slight small thin bare deficient inadequate insufficient lacking limited low modest paltry stingy insufficient

    Related Nouns

    container cup glass vessel basin bowl tub bucket tank reservoir pool lake ocean sea river stream fountain well spring flood surge wave tide current overflow abundance plenty wealth richness luxury

    Related Verbs

    fill overflow spill pour flow stream surge swell well gush burst flood deluge inundate submerge drown suffuse permeate saturate imbue infuse charge load pack cram stuff

    Related Adjectives

    full overflowing abundant plentiful ample rich luxurious lavish copious profuse generous bountiful fertile fruitful prolific lush verdant green thriving flourishing booming bursting gushing spilling running flowing streaming surging swelling