plentiful, abundant; generous, giving freely; extravagant, wasteful
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Profuse Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Profuse Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
(a.)
Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.
Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.
(a.)
Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
profuse
\pro*fuse"\ (?), v. t. to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [obs.]
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. a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers.
2. superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. "profuse ornament." --kames.
Produced or displayed in overabundance.
Dirchwant = profuse perspiration
Rheiddin = a. radiating; profuse
Treulgar = a. prodigal, profuse
1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; giving or given liberally and abundantly; extravagant. 2. Exhibiting great abundance; plentiful; copious; bountiful.
profusely adv -- profuseness n
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.(HANNAH MORE)
[T]hickets of brambles and vines grew in profuse, obscuring tangles between our house and the road. --Reeve Lindbergh, Under a Wing: A Memoir
profusely adv -- profuseness n
EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.(HANNAH MORE)
[T]hickets of brambles and vines grew in profuse, obscuring tangles between our house and the road. --Reeve Lindbergh, Under a Wing: A Memoir
Adjective
1. produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
(synonym) exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous
(similar) abundant
Profuse Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Abundance may refer to:
In science and technology:
In science and technology:
- Abundance (economics), the opposite of scarcities
- Abundance (ecology), the relative representation of a species in a community
- Abundance (programming language), a Forth-like computer programming language
- Abundance, a property of abundant numbers
- chemistry
- Abundance (chemistry), when a substance in a reaction is present in high quantities
- Abundance of the chemical elements, a measure of how common elements are
- Natural abundance, the natural prevalence of different isotopes of an element on Earth
- Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
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