Rife

Adjective

 * 1) Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
 * Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
 * 1) * 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
 * The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.


 * 1) Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
 * The red deer are rife in these woodlands.

Adverb

 * 1) Plentifully, abundantly.
 * The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

Thesaurus
abounding, abundant, affluent, afloat, alive with, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, average, bandied about, besetting, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bruited about, bursting, common, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, current, diffuse, dominant, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, full, galore, generous, going about, going around, in circulation, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, in the air, in the news, inexhaustible, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, made public, many, maximal, much, normal, numerous, opulent, ordinary, overflowing, packed, pandemic, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, popular, populous, predominant, predominating, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, rampant, regnant, reigning, replete, reported, rich, riotous, routine, ruling, rumored, running, running over, standard, stereotyped, studded, superabundant, swarming, talked about, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, usual, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, whispered, whispered about, wholesale, widespread

Etymology
From, from rife:, ryfe:, from , from. Cognate with rju:,  rive:,  rijf:,  riv:,  rífr:,  reifa:.

Anagrams

 * fire, refi