| 单词 | profuse |
| 释义 | pro·fuse I. 1. < were both profuse in their thanks — Collier's Year Book > 2. < contains the most valuable minerals, in a profuse variety — H.T.Buckle > Synonyms: < the milk is scanty during the first two or three days, but becomes profuse, in most cases, by the third and fourth day — Morris Fishbein > < pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art — P.B.Shelley > < his court became as crowded and profuse as his grandfather's. Money was recklessly borrowed and as recklessly squandered — J.R.Green > lavish may suggest an unstinted, extravagant, or munificent profusion or outpouring < the lavish box lunch where baked ham, fried chicken, and home-baked bread are routine fare — C.W.Morton > < every comfort and luxury that a wealthy and lavish old grandfather thought fit to provide — W.M.Thackeray > < five hundred million dollars a year, which go into lavish expenditure on health, education, and economic development — Andrew Boyd > prodigal may apply to reckless lavishness and extravagance seeming to lead to depletion or exhaustion of supplies < wildly prodigal of color, the new sun then sketched a wide band of throbbing red-gold across less lofty glaciers and snow fields — F.V.W.Mason > < the table spread with opulent hospitality and careless profusion — the baked ham at one end and the saddle of roast mutton at the other, with fried chicken, oysters, crabs, sweet potatoes, jellies, custards — a prodigal feast that only outdoor stomachs could manage — V.L.Parrington > luxuriant may suggest a splendid, colorful, pleasing rich abundance < a luxuriant growth of native iris, trumpet vines, and water hyacinths line its banks — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < rich and luxuriant beauty; a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints; a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown — Nathaniel Hawthorne > lush may suggest a rich, easy, soft luxuriance < a Jersey cow standing belly-deep in a lush meadow — Joseph Mitchell > < the fabulous period of the Nineties, that lush, plush, glittering era with all its sentimentality and opulence and ostentation — Sara H. Hay > exuberant suggests fruitful abundance marked by vivacity or rampant vitality < an exuberant nature pouring out its wealth in spendthrift fashion — V.L.Parrington > < she was in exuberant spirits, and the softest colors of flame danced in her lips and eyes and informed the texture of her hair — Elinor Wylie > < houses frescoed, antlered, flowered and curlicued in exuberant outburst of Tyrolean design — Claudia Cassidy > II. 1. obsolete 2. obsolete |
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