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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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