Word Meanings - PROFUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to pour: cf. F. profus. See Fuse 1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse

Additional info about word: PROFUSE

or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to pour: cf. F. profus. See Fuse 1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton. 2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. "Profuse ornament." Kames. Syn. -- Lavish; exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant. -- Profuse, Lavish, Prodigal. Profuse denotes pouring out (as money, etc.) with great fullness or freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks, promises, etc. Lavish is stronger, implying unnecessary or wasteful excess; as, lavish of his bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger still, denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as, prodigal of one's strength, life, or blood, to secure some object. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFUSE)

• Abundant
• Plentiful
• copious
• plenteous
• large
• ample
• overflowing
• teeming
• full
• lavish
• luxuriant
• bountiful
• abounding
• profuse
• liberal
• rich
• Extravagant
• Wild
• monstrous
• preposterous
• absurd
• prodigal
• wasteful
• reckless
• excessive
• abnormal
• Lavish
• Profuse
• unsparing
• extravagant
• Liberal
• Free
• gentle
• refined
• polished
• generous
• catholic
• enlarged
• handsome
• munificent
• abundant
• noble-minded
• bounteous
• tolerant
• plentiful
• Prodigal
• squandering
• improvident

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROFUSE)

• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to PROFUSE)

• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• CATHOLICON
  A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
• PRODIGALLY
  In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CATHOLIC
  1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• BOUNTIFUL
  1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
• CATHOLICIZE
  To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• CATHOLICITY
  1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality. 2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism. 3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
• TOLERANT
  Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.