Lavish

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lavish \Lav"ish\ (l[a^]v"[i^]sh), a. [Akin to E. lave to lade
     out; cf. AS. gelafian to refresh, G. laben.]
     1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as,
        lavish of money; lavish of praise.
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     2. Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
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              Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. --Shak.
  
     Syn: Profuse; prodigal; wasteful; extravagant; exuberant;
          immoderate. See {Profuse}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lavish \Lav"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lavished} (-[i^]sht); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Lavishing}.]
     To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality;
     to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lavish
       adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the
              critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
              gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his
              mother a quarter and he thought them munificent";
              "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his
              unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to
              Britain" [syn: {munificent}, {overgenerous}, {prodigal},
               {too-generous}, {unsparing}, {unstinted}, {unstinting}]
       2: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish
          buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: {lucullan}, {lush}, {plush},
           {plushy}]
       v : expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was
           showered with praise" [syn: {shower}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  209 Moby Thesaurus words for "lavish":
     abounding, abundant, accord, administer, affluent, afford,
     alive with, all-sufficing, allot, allow, ample, aplenty, award,
     bestow, bestow on, bighearted, blow, bottomless, bounteous,
     bountiful, bristling, bursting, communicate, confer, copious,
     crawling, crowded, crowding, deal, deal out, diffuse, dish out,
     dispense, dissipate, dissipative, dole, dole out, donate,
     easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated,
     excessive, exhaustless, expend, extend, extravagant, exuberant,
     fat, fertile, flush, fork out, free, freehanded, freehearted, full,
     galore, gamble away, generous, gift, gift with, give, give freely,
     give out, giving, go through, gorgeous, gracious, grant,
     greathearted, hand out, handsome, hang the expense, heap, help to,
     hospitable, immoderate, impart, impressive, improvident, in plenty,
     in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, intemperate,
     issue, jam-packed, jammed, large, largehearted, let have, liberal,
     lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnanimous, many, maximal, mete,
     mete out, much, munificent, numerous, offer, open, open-handed,
     openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous,
     overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish,
     overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous,
     overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous,
     overprolific, packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous,
     plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethoric, populous, pound-foolish,
     pour, present, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal,
     productive, proffer, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating,
     prolific, pullulating, rain, rampant, render, replete, rich, rife,
     riotous, run through, running over, scatter, seize the day, serve,
     shell out, shower, sink, slather, slip, snow, sow broadcast, spend,
     spendthrift, splendid, squander, stintless, studded, sumptuous,
     superabundant, swarming, teeming, tender, thick, thick as hail,
     thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, throw away,
     throw money around, thrust, uncurbed, ungrudging, unreasonable,
     unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting,
     vouchsafe, waste, wasteful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished,
     well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, yield