• IPA: /ˈlævɪʃ/

lavish (comparative lavisher, superlative lavishest)

1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

   lavish of money;   lavish of praise

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

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

2. Superabundant; excessive

   lavish spirits

   lavish meal

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Act 2 Scene 2

     Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes

• (expending profusely): profuse, prodigal, wasteful, extravagant, exuberant, immoderate
• See also Thesaurus:prodigal

• lavy

• German: freigiebig
• Italian: prodigo, profuso, generoso
• Russian: ще́дрый
• Spanish: generoso, pródigo, dadivoso, derrochador, exuberante

• German: überreich
• Italian: eccessivo, smodato, sovrabbondante
• Russian: чрезмерный
• Spanish: excesivo, incontrolado, superabundante, sobrado

lavish (lavishes, present participle lavishing; past and past participle lavished)

1. (transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.

   They lavished money on the dinner.

2. (transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.

   They lavished him with praise.

• Italian: prodigare, profondere, spendere profusamente
• Russian: расточать
• Spanish: derrochar, despilfarrar, prodigar

• lavisher
• lavishly
• lavishness