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lavish

verb

1 lavish

Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.

synonym: shower.

Roget 818: be prodigal etc. adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in [Slang]; pay through the nose etc. (dear) 814; spill, ... show more

Roget 784: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.    present, give away, dispense, dispose of; ... show more

Roget 641: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; ... show more

Dutch: regenen

adjective

1 lavish

Very generous:
— Distributed gifts with a lavish hand.
— The critics were lavish in their praise.

synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting.

Roget 818: prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed etc. (liberal) ... show more

Roget 639: sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.    measured; moderate etc. (temperate) ... show more

Roget 641: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal etc. 818; ... show more

2 lavish

Characterized by extravagance and profusion:
— A lavish buffet.

synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy.


Moby thesaurus: abounding, abundant, accord, administer, affluent, afford, alive with, all-sufficing, allot, allow, ample, aplenty, award, bestow, bestow on, bighearted, blow, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful ... show more.

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