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# lavish

«lavish» in Mova's school dictionary: **given in very large amounts, generous and more than…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (lavish, more lavish, most lavish); verb (lavishes, lavished, lavishing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lavish means given in very large amounts, generous and more than enough: a lavish meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#m1)

2) To lavish is to give a great deal of something, such as love or praise, to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a lavish hand gives or spends very freely; a lavish giver is never sparing; to lavish is to shower someone with gifts or affection

### examples

- She gave lavish gifts to all her guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#x1)
- The queen lavished gold on her servants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#x2)
- He was lavish with his praise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#x3)
- They lavished love on their old dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#x4)
- Our teacher is not lavish with stickers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths. Lavish describes generosity, not an exact number, so it gives no count.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lavish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.