Profuse
[prə'fjuːs] or [prə'fjus]
Definition
(a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
(a.) Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.
(v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Lavish, prodigal, improvident, extravagant, wasteful, too liberal, too bountiful.[2]. Exuberant, over-abounding, in profusion.
Editor: Randolph
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive
ANT:Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor
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Definition
adj. liberal to excess: lavish: extravagant.—adv. Profūse′ly.—ns. Profūse′ness Profū′sion state of being profuse: extravagance: prodigality.
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Examples
- Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their charity became gradually less extensive, their hospitality less liberal, or less profuse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If mere existence, and not happiness, had been the final end of our being, what need of the profuse luxuries which we enjoy? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- My Lady signifies, without profuse expenditure of words, that she is as wearily well as she can hope to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With the departure of the figures the profuse articulations of the women wasted away from her memory; but the accents of the other stayed on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mrs. Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgments. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It seems absurd at first sight, that we should despise their persons, and yet reward their talents with the most profuse liberality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Amelia's maid was profuse in condolences, but went off quite resigned to better herself in a genteeler quarter of the town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her profuse raven locks were entirely unadorned, and her neck, arms and fingers were covered with glittering jewels of every colour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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