Lavish

/ˈlævɪʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal..

Definitions by Sense

1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
2. Superabundant; excessive.
3. (obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.
4. (chiefly dialectal) Rank or lush with vegetation.
5. (transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.
6. (transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
7. (obsolete) Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.

Example Sentences

lavish of money; lavish of praise

The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

lavish spirits

lavish meal

Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes

The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.

Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".

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Word Forms

• lavisher
• more lavish
• lavishest
• most lavish
• lavis
• laves
• lavas
• lavishes
• lavishing
• lavished

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