Lavish
['lævɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; 'He was showered with praise'.
(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' .
(adj.) characterized by extravagance and profusion; 'a lavish buffet'; 'a lucullan feast' .
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Definition
(a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
(a.) Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
(v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Profuse, prodigal, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful, extravagant, too free, over-liberal.
v. a. Waste, squander, dissipate, spend lavishly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pour, heap, squander, waste
ANT:Husband, store, keep, retain, accumulate, hoard, treasure, spare
SYN:Profuse, unsparing, extravagant, bountiful, wasteful, prodigal
ANT:Chary, sparing, niggardly, economical, dainty, close, retentive
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Definition
v.t. to expend profusely: to waste.—adj. bestowing profusely: prodigal: extravagant: unrestrained.—adv. Lav′ishly.—ns. Lav′ishment Lav′ishness.
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Examples
- He is intent upon various new expenses,--horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And mostly in difficulties, yet mostly lavish, too, in the expensive articles of print and paper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He spent great sums and incurred heavy debts to provide public festivals on the most lavish scale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had been enriching his medical attendant in the most lavish manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Well, then, Master George Osborne had every comfort and luxury that a wealthy and lavish old grandfather thought fit to provide. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Money was spent with almost lavish freedom. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I might excite your passions; but then, such contempt as you have lavished on poor Lady Caroline Lamb would kill me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On those she lavished, almost ironically, her affection and her companionship. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Upon her he had lavished, unknown to himself, all the reverence and respect and love that a normal English boy feels for his own mother. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The people idolized him; princes lavished uncounted treasures upon him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He never wasted a moment of time, or lavished a farthing of money in folly or dissipation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- If anyone had known the care lavished on that dolly, I think it would have touched their hearts, even while they laughed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The Sultan has been lavishing money like water in England and Paris, but his subjects are suffering for it now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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