lavish
Verb
Verb Forms: lavished, lavishing, lavishes
- To expend or give in great amounts.
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- To give out extremely generously; to squander.
- To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
Adjective Satellite
- very generous
- "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"
- "the critics were lavish in their praise"
- characterized by extravagance and profusion
- "a lavish buffet"
Adj
- Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
- Superabundant; excessive.
- Unrestrained, impetuous.
- Rank or lush with vegetation.
Noun
- Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
Adjective
- Expending or giving in great amounts; extravagant.
Examples
- He would LAVISH attention on finding the perfect spot for his high-scoring tiles.
- His LAVISH vocabulary allowed him to drop impressive words onto the Scrabble board.
- lavish meal
- lavish of money; lavish of praise
- lavish spirits
- They lavished him with praise.
- They lavished money on the dinner.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).
Synonyms
lucullan, lush, munificent, overgenerous, plush, plushy, shower, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, bosky, excessive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, greenly, hasty, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, intemperate, lavish, nimious, obscene, opulent, over the top, overmuch, overweening, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rash, reckless, spendthrift, spontaneous, squandering, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrifty, verdant, verdured, verdurous, virid, viridescent, wanton, wasteful
Scrabble Score: 12
lavish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlavish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lavish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary