lavish

30 12 2007

Verbs
1. (verb) lavish, shower;
  - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
  - “He was showered with praise”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting;
  - 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”;

2. (adj.) lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy;
  - characterized by extravagance and profusion;
  - “a lavish buffet”; “a lucullan feast”;

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