Associations to the word «Lavish»
Noun
- Furniture
- Graft
- Premiere
- Imagery
- Charity
- Distinction
- Grace
- Dedication
- Dress
- Offering
- Favor
- Regard
- Resort
- Suspicion
- Mother
- Invention
- Patience
- Fashion
- Prosperity
- Blossom
- Carpet
- Feeling
- Excellence
- Virtue
- Bracelet
- Gangster
- Storytelling
- Disposition
- Ambition
- Folly
- Flower
- Radiation
- Creature
- Nephew
- Emperor
- Emotion
- Countess
- Enthusiasm
- Courtesy
- Wit
- Whole
- Paradise
- Heart
- Talent
- Sacrifice
- Occasion
- Greatest
- Soul
- Felt
- Respect
- Render
- Lady
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
LAVISH, adjective. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
LAVISH, adjective. Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
LAVISH, verb. (transitive) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Dictionary definition
LAVISH, verb. Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise".
LAVISH, adjective. 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, adjective. Characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.