Word Meanings - GENEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. 1. Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. The generous and gravest citizens. Shak. 2. Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth;

Additional info about word: GENEROUS

noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. 1. Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. The generous and gravest citizens. Shak. 2. Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous. "The generous critic." Pope. "His generous spouse." Pope. "A generous pack ." Addison. 3. Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father. 4. Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table. Swift. 5. Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine. Syn. -- Magnanimous; bountiful. See Liberal. -- Gen"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Gen"er*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENEROUS)

• Chivalrous
• Courageous
• generous
• knightly
• gallant
• heroic
• adventurous
• valiant
• spirited
• handsome
• high-minded
• Fine
• Thin
• minute
• slender
• delicate
• pure
• smooth
• filmy
• gauzy
• keen
• artistic
• choice
• finished
• high
• Grand
• noble
• sensitive
• refined
• honorable
• excellent
• superior
• pretty
• beautiful
• showy
• elegant
• ostentatious
• presumptuous
• nice
• casuistical
• subtle
• Free
• Detached
• playing
• operating
• open
• unoccupied
• unobstructed
• unimpeded
• permitted
• unhindered
• exempt
• gratuitous
• unconditional
• at liberty
• clear
• liberal
• untrammelled
• uncounted
• careless
• loose
• easy
• munificent
• unreserved
• frank
• bountiful
• bounteous
• Handsome
• Comely
• good-looking
• ample
• graceful
• lovely
• Ingenuous
• Noble
• candid
• sincere
• straightforward
• artless
• honest

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GENEROUS)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to GENEROUS)

• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• INGENUOUS
  frank; pref. in- in + the root of gignere to beget. See Genius, and 1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth. 2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; uprigth; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. If
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• CANDIDATING
  The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• CANDID
  fr. candëre to be of a glowing white; akin to accend, incend, to set 1. White. The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden. 2. Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.