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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse; splendid |
| Synonyms: | abundant, bountiful, copious, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, first-class, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive, improvident, inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, munificent, openhanded, opulent, plentiful, plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profusive, prolific, riotous, ritzy, sumptuous, swanky, thriftless, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsparing, unstinging, wasteful, wild |
| Antonyms: | economical, scanty, scarce, small, spare |
| Main Entry: | abundant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentiful, large in number |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, crawling with, cup runs over with, eco-rich, exuberant, filled, full, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lousy with, luxuriant, mucho, no end of, overflowing, plate is full of, plenteous, plenty, profuse, rich, rolling in, stinking with, sufficient, teeming |
| Antonyms: | lacking, rare, scarce, sparse |
| Main Entry: | ample |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | more than necessary, sufficient |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, big, bounteous, bountiful, broad, capacious, commodious, copious, enough, expansive, extensive, full, galore, generous, great, heavy, large, lavish, liberal, no end, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, roomy, spacious, spare, substantial, unrestricted, voluminous, wide |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, meager, not enough |
| Main Entry: | bestow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, allot |
| Synonyms: | accord, apportion, award, bequeath, come through, commit, confer, devote, donate, entrust, favor, gift, give away, grant, hand out, honor with, impart, kick in, lavish, offer, present, put out, render to |
| Antonyms: | deprive, refuse, take |
| Main Entry: | bountiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, aplenty, bounteous, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, exuberant, free, galore, generous, handsome, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, magnanimous, munificent, no end of, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prolific, stink with, unsparing |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, meagre, sparse, wanting |
| Main Entry: | charitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | giving, generous |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, all heart, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big*, bighearted, bountiful, eleemosynary, good, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, obliging, philanthropic, sympathetic |
| Antonyms: | inhumane, malevolent, mean, uncharitable, unkind, unsympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | considerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, large |
| Synonyms: | ample, appreciable, astronomical, big, bountiful, comfortable, commodious, extensive, goodly, great, hefty, huge, large-scale, lavish, major, marked, much, noticeable, plentiful, pretty, reasonable, respectable, sizable, substantial, tidy, tolerable |
| Antonyms: | inconsiderable, insignificant, little, slight, small, undistinguished, unnoticeable |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
| Synonyms: | absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go, go through, have recourse to, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, preoccupy, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, wash up, waste, wear out |
| Antonyms: | accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store |
| Main Entry: | copious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | a mess of, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, coming out of ears, crawling with, extensive, exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix, replete, rich, superabundant, thick with, verbose, wordy |
| Antonyms: | lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting |
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