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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasteful |
| Synonyms: | dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton |
| Antonyms: | careful, thrifty |
| Main Entry: | abounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plentiful |
| Synonyms: | abundant, bountiful, copious, filled, flush, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, teeming |
| Main Entry: | excessive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | too much; overdone |
| Synonyms: | boundless, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzying, enormous, exaggerated, exorbitant, extra, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, limitless, more, needless, over, overboard, overkill, overmuch, plethoric, prodigal, profligate, recrementitious, redundant, self-indulgent, sky-high, steep, stiff, stratospheric, super, superabundant, superfluous, supernatural, too many, towering, unbounded, unconscionable, undue, unmeasurable, unreasonable, way out |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, moderate, reasonable, underdone |
| Main Entry: | extravagant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indulgent, wasteful |
| Synonyms: | absurd, bizarre, costly, crazy, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, extreme, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flashy, foolish, garish, gaudy, grandiose, immoderate, implausible, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, lavish, ludicrous, nonsensical, ornate, ostentatious, outrageous, overpriced, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profligate, reckless, ridiculous, showy, silly, spendthrift, steep, unbalanced, unconscionable, unreasonable, unrestrained |
| Antonyms: | close, economical, moderate, provident, reasonable, saving, stingy, thrifty, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | exuberant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, copious, diffuse, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fulsome, lavish, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overdone, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, prolific, rampant, rich, riotous, superabundant, superfluous, teeming |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, needing, wanting |
| Main Entry: | flush |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing, abundant |
| Synonyms: | affluent, close, full, generous, lavish, liberal, opulent, prodigal, rich, wealthy, well-off |
| Antonyms: | lacking |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous, unsparing |
| Synonyms: | big, big-hearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, eager, handsome, hospitable, lavish, liberal, munificent, open-handed, prodigal, unstinging, willing |
| Antonyms: | mean, niggardly, tight-fisted |
| Main Entry: | generous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | giving, big-hearted |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, considerate, easy, equitable, excellent, fair, free, good, greathearted, helpful, high-minded, honest, honorable, hospitable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lavish, liberal, lofty, loose, magnanimous, moderate, munificent, noble, open-handed, philanthropic, prodigal, profuse, reasonable, soft-touch, thoughtful, tolerant, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, willing |
| Antonyms: | greedy, mean, miserly, selfish, stingy |
| Main Entry: | improvident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, spendthrift |
| Synonyms: | extravagant, heedless, imprudent, inconsiderate, lavish, negligent, prodigal, profligate, profuse, reckless, shiftless, shortsighted, thoughtless, thriftless, uneconomical, unthrifty, wasteful |
| Antonyms: | careful, miserly, provident, thrifty |
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