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Adjective lavish has 2 senses
- lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting - 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"
Antonyms: stingy, ungenerous (indirect, via generous)
- lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy - characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
Antonym: poor (indirect, via rich)
Verb lavish has 1 sense
- lavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"
--1 is one way to consume, squander, waste, ware
Sample sentence:
They lavish money on their grandchild
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