lavish

adj

1. Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

   “lavish of money; lavish of praise”

   “The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].”

   “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”

   “Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes”

   “The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.”

   “Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".”

3. (obsolete)Unrestrained, impetuous.

   “Thou wilt repent theſe lauiſh words of thine”

4. (dialectal)Rank or lush with vegetation.

   “[…] Thro’ lands where not a leaf was dumb; ⁠But all the lavish hills would hum The murmur of a happy Pan: […]”

verb

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.”

noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable)Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.