[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lavish \lav"ish\ la^v"i^sh, a. akin to e. lave to lade
   out; cf. as. gelafian to refresh, g. laben.
   1. expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as,
      lavish of money; lavish of praise.
      1913 webster

   2. superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
      1913 webster

            let her have needful, but not lavish, means. --shak.

   syn: profuse; prodigal; wasteful; extravagant; exuberant;
        immoderate. see profuse.
        1913 webster
see also:
profuse 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lavish \lav"ish\, v. t. imp.  p. p. lavished -i^sht; p.
   pr.  vb. n. lavishing.
   to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality;
   to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
   1913 webster
see also:
lavished lavishing 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lavish
     adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the
            critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
            gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his
            mother a quarter and he thought them munificent";
            "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his
            unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to
            britain" syn: munificent, overgenerous, prodigal,
             too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
     2: characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish
        buffet"; "a lucullan feast" syn: lucullan, lush, plush,
         plushy
     v : expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "he was
         showered with praise" syn: shower
see also:
munificent overgenerous prodigal too-generous unsparing unstinted 
unstinting lucullan lush plush plushy 
shower 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

209 moby thesaurus words for "lavish":
   abounding, abundant, accord, administer, affluent, afford,
   alive with, all-sufficing, allot, allow, ample, aplenty, award,
   bestow, bestow on, bighearted, blow, bottomless, bounteous,
   bountiful, bristling, bursting, communicate, confer, copious,
   crawling, crowded, crowding, deal, deal out, diffuse, dish out,
   dispense, dissipate, dissipative, dole, dole out, donate,
   easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated,
   excessive, exhaustless, expend, extend, extravagant, exuberant,
   fat, fertile, flush, fork out, free, freehanded, freehearted, full,
   galore, gamble away, generous, gift, gift with, give, give freely,
   give out, giving, go through, gorgeous, gracious, grant,
   greathearted, hand out, handsome, hang the expense, heap, help to,
   hospitable, immoderate, impart, impressive, improvident, in plenty,
   in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, intemperate,
   issue, jam-packed, jammed, large, largehearted, let have, liberal,
   lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magnanimous, many, maximal, mete,
   mete out, much, munificent, numerous, offer, open, open-handed,
   openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous,
   overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overlavish,
   overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous,
   overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous,
   overprolific, packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous,
   plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethoric, populous, pound-foolish,
   pour, present, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal,
   productive, proffer, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating,
   prolific, pullulating, rain, rampant, render, replete, rich, rife,
   riotous, run through, running over, scatter, seize the day, serve,
   shell out, shower, sink, slather, slip, snow, sow broadcast, spend,
   spendthrift, splendid, squander, stintless, studded, sumptuous,
   superabundant, swarming, teeming, tender, thick, thick as hail,
   thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging, throw away,
   throw money around, thrust, uncurbed, ungrudging, unreasonable,
   unrestrained, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting,
   vouchsafe, waste, wasteful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished,
   well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, yield

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