lavish

lavish is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
2. adjective. Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
3. transitive verb. To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
4. verb. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns

   "He was showered with praise"

   Synonyms: shower

5. adjective. very generous

   "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"

   "the critics were lavish in their praise"

   Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

6. adjective. characterized by extravagance and profusion

   "a lavish buffet"

   "a lucullan feast"

   Synonyms: lucullan, lush, plush, plushy

Synonyms

shower, munificent, overgenerous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lavish:

vishal

Common word forms

lavished, lavisher, lavishes, lavishly, lavishest, lavishing, lavishment, lavishness

Words from these letters

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