Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, a. [L. profusus, p. p. of profundere to
pour forth or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to pour: cf.
F. profus. See Fuse to melt.]
1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful;
exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse
government; profuse hospitality.
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A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. --Milton.
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2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse
expenditure. "Profuse ornament." --Kames.
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Syn: Lavish; exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant.
Usage: Profuse, Lavish, Prodigal. Profuse denotes
pouring out (as money, etc.) with great fullness or
freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks,
promises, etc. Lavish is stronger, implying
unnecessary or wasteful excess; as, lavish of his
bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger
still, denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as,
prodigal of one's strength, life, or blood, to secure
some object. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, v. t.
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to
squander. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
profuse
adj : produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "profuse":
abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with,
all-sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, ballyhooed, bighearted,
bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting,
considerable, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse,
diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go,
effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless,
exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile,
flush, formless, free, freehanded, freehearted, fruitful, full,
galore, generous, giving, gracious, grandiloquent, greathearted,
gushing, gushy, handsome, high-flown, hospitable, hyperbolic,
immoderate, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent,
inexhaustible, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam-packed,
jammed, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant,
magnanimous, magnified, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous,
open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overdone, overdrawn,
overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overflowing,
overgenerous, overgreat, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal,
overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought,
packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous,
plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, populous, pound-foolish, prevailing,
prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profligate, profusive,
proliferating, prolific, puffed, rampant, redundant, reiterative,
repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over,
spendthrift, stintless, stretched, studded, superabundant,
superlative, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail,
thick with, thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, touted,
ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wasteful,
wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked,
wholesale
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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