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profuse 音标拼音: [prəfj'us] a. 很多的,丰富的,浪费的,慷慨的 很多的,丰富的,浪费的,慷慨的 profuse adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; " their riotous blooming" [ synonym: { exuberant}, { lush}, { luxuriant}, { profuse}, { riotous}] Profuse \ Pro* fuse"\, a. [ L. profusus, p. p. of profundere to pour forth or out; pro forward, forth fundere to pour: cf. F. profus. See { Fuse} to melt.] 1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. [ 1913 Webster] A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. " Profuse ornament." -- Kames. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Lavish; exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant. Usage: { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Profuse \ Pro* fuse"\, v. t. To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [ Obs.] -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] 160 Moby Thesaurus words for " profuse": abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with, all- sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, ballyhooed, bighearted, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, considerable, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flush, formless, free, freehanded, freehearted, fruitful, full, galore, generous, giving, gracious, grandiloquent, greathearted, gushing, gushy, handsome, high- flown, hospitable, hyperbolic, immoderate, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam- packed, jammed, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, magnified, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous, open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, penny- wise and pound- foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, populous, pound- foolish, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profligate, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, spendthrift, stintless, stretched, studded, superabundant, superlative, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick- coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, touted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wasteful, wealthy, well- found, well- furnished, well- provided, well- stocked, wholesale
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