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lavish

adj
/ˈlævɪʃ/

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”).

  1. derived from laven — “to pour out”
  2. derived from lavasse
  3. inherited from laves

Definitions

  1. Expending or bestowing profusely

    Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

    • lavish of money; lavish of praise
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

  2. Superabundant

    Superabundant; excessive.

    • lavish spirits
    • lavish meal
    • Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes

  3. Unrestrained, impetuous.

    • Thou wilt repent theſe lauiſh words of thine
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Rank or lush with vegetation.

      • […] Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb; ⁠But all the lavish hills would hum The murmur of a happy Pan: […]

    2. To give out extremely generously

      To give out extremely generously; to squander.

      • They lavished money on the dinner.

    3. To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.

      • They lavished him with praise.

    4. Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lavish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lavish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at lavish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA