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lavish

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lavish in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
    "He was showered with praise"
    lavish  shower 
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"
    lavish  munificent  overgenerous  too-generous  unsparing  unstinted  unstinting 
  2. characterized by extravagance and profusion
    "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
    lavish  lucullan  lush  plush  plushy 
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