profuse
abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
Adjective
- abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure
- On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours - 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker,...
Origin
From Latin profusus.
Forms
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Verb
- To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
- Mercury, thy help hath been profused - [1611?], Homer, “Book XXIV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer,...