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Another word for profuse

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Adjective

  1. Growing profusely

    See also:

    big

  2. Given to or marked by unrestrained abundance

    See also:

    excess

    big

  3. Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending

    See also:

    save

    excess

    careful

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Another word for profuse

Modifier
  1. See also:

    wasteful

    plentiful

Synonym Study

  • Lush implies such great luxuriance as my seem excessive lush tropical vegetation, lush prose See also syn. study at plentiful.
  • Luxuriant suggests production in great and rich abundance luxuriant foliage
  • Prodigal implies such reckless extravagance as to suggest eventual impoverishment the prodigal heirs to a fortune
  • Extravagant always suggests unreasonably excessive, wasteful spending or giving extravagant living
  • Lavish implies an unstinted, generous, sometimes unreasonably liberal, giving lavish attentions
  • Profuse implies a pouring or giving forth freely, often to the point of excess profuse thanks
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Sentence Examples

  • He breaks out into profuse sweats and may vomit.

  • On his way to Paris he had been profuse in promises of reform and constitutional rule.

  • Carteret was a profuse and popular lord lieutenant who pleased both the "English interest" and the native Irish.

  • The chiefs of the clans, with a few sub-chiefs having hereditary rights, formed the King's Council, and the king, unless of exceptionally strong character, often exercised less power than the council of chiefs, each of whom kept his little court, making a profuse display of barbaric pomp. Land is held in common by the tribes, lands unallotted being attached to the office of head chief or king and called "stool lands."

  • It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

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