1 large in amount, or impressive, and usually costing a lot of money
SYNEXTRAVAGANT:
lavish gifts / costumes / celebrations * They lived a very lavish lifestyle. * They rebuilt the house on an even more lavish scale than before. * It was one of the most lavish weddings I've ever been to.
2 ~ (with / in sth) giving or doing sth generously:
He was lavish in his praise for her paintings.
lavishly adverb:
lavishly decorated / illustrated * She entertains her friends lavishly.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
lavish sth on / upon sb/sth (written) to give a lot of sth, often too much, to sb/sth:
She lavishes most of her attention on her youngest son.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lavish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lavish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lavish is tagged as adjective.
Does lavish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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