lavish

Meaning

1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
2. Superabundant; excessive.
3. (obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.
4. Rank or lush with vegetation.

extravagant

luxurious

lucullan

too-generous

high-tasted

spend foolishly

too broad-minded

too generous

be on the air

waste of money

not settled

benefic

very extravagant

give generously

be extravagant

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlævɪʃ/

From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).