lavish
adj.
expended in large quantities; generous; extravagant, wasteful
v.
give in large amounts, expend in great quantities
lavish
Verb
1. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"
(synonym) shower
(hypernym) consume, squander, waste, ware
Adjective
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"
(synonym) munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
(similar) generous
2. characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
(synonym) lucullan, lush, plush, plushy
(similar) rich
Lavish
(v. t.)
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
(a.)
Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
(a.)
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
lavish
adj.
1. extravagant
فضول خرچ, مسرف, خراج, شاہ خرچ
2. superfluous
بہت, فراواں, زيادہ, وافر, کثير, بےاندازہ
3. wild
آوارہ, سرگرداں
lavish
v. a.
ضائع کرنا, اڑانا, اسرف کرنا, بےفائدہ خرچ کرنا,
lavish
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.