| 单词 | lavish |
| 释义 | lavish (once / 520 pages) adjv Lavish means generous and extravagant as an adjective and to give generously as a verb. If you don't like it when people lavish you with attention, you might appreciate a lavish spread of excellent food instead. Lavish comes from the Old French lavache meaning "deluge, torrent" referring to rain. When you see it, think of a shower of good things coming down on you as you never use lavish with something bad. Didn't your parents lavish you with praise and love when you were small? With lavish as an adjective, you can rephrase that question like this: Didn't your parents offer you lavish praise and love when you were little? WORD FAMILYlavish: lavished, lavishes, lavishing, lavishingly, lavishly, lavishness USAGE EXAMPLESIn New Delhi and many other cities, newspapers are full of big advertisements for lavish parties at upscale hotels and restaurants. Time(Jan 01, 2017) Share prices are also being driven by salivation that he will deliver the lavish tax breaks he promised corporate America. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) He even invited the diplomats’ children to attend lavish Orthodox Christmas festivities in the Kremlin. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj very generous distributed gifts with a lavish hand the critics were lavish in their praise Syn munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting generous willing to give and share unstintingly 2adj characterized by extravagance and profusion a lavish buffet Syn lucullan, lush, plush, plushy rich suggestive of or characterized by great expense 3v expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns Syn|Hyper shower consume, squander, ware, waste spend extravagantly |
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