lavish
Meanings
Verb
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- To give out extremely generously; to squander.
- To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
Adjective Satellite
- very generous
- "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"
- "the critics were lavish in their praise"
- characterized by extravagance and profusion
- "a lavish buffet"
Adj
- Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
- Superabundant; excessive.
- Unrestrained, impetuous.
- Rank or lush with vegetation.
Noun
- Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).
Synonyms
bosky, excessive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, greenly, hasty, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, intemperate, lavish, lucullan, lush, munificent, nimious, obscene, opulent, overgenerous, overmuch, overweening, plush, plushy, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rash, reckless, shower, spendthrift, spontaneous, squandering, too-generous, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, unthrifty, verdant, verdured, verdurous, virid, viridescent, wanton, wasteful
Scrabble Score: 12
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