Munificent \Mu*nif"i*cent\, a. [L. munificus; munus service,
gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make. Cf. Immunity, -fy.]
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent
benefactor. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
munificent
adj : 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: lavish, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
WordNet (r) 2.0
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "munificent":
bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, freehearted,
generous, giving, gracious, greathearted, handsome, hospitable,
large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, open,
openhanded, openhearted, princely, profuse, stintless, ungrudging,
unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
lavish, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
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