TAPPU-RI たっぷり
Meanings
1. Describes having more than enough of something—an ample or abundant quantity with a comfortable sense of sufficiency.
2. After a noun, emphasizes that the thing is present in abundance or to a full degree.
Examples
1. I have plenty of money and time, but no health.
私には金と時間はたっぷりあるが、健康がない。
1. You must be hungry. Eat as much as you like.
お腹が空いてるだろうに。たっぷりお食べ。
2. Full of confidence. / Plenty of sex appeal. / Loaded with sarcasm. / Plenty of garlic.
自信たっぷり 色気たっぷり ニンニクたっぷり
Dogmatic Opinion
TAPPU-RI strikes me as an unusually neutral expression. It basically says that there is a large or sufficient quantity; the word itself is neither positive nor negative.
Still, the idea of “enough” matters. Some invisible threshold of sufficiency has been comfortably reached or exceeded.
That is why TAPPU-RI works not only with physical substances but with time, confidence, charm, sarcasm, and other things that can be conceptualized as existing in an amount.
The image is abundance with room to spare.
Proximate Expression
plenty
fully
abundantly
Related Words
For Japanese Learners
Plenty of, ample, abundant, generously, and a good amount of are useful. “時間がたっぷりある” is “I have plenty of time”; “クリームをたっぷり使う” is “use plenty of cream” or “use the cream generously.” TAPPU-RI emphasizes comfortable sufficiency rather than merely “many.”
