ADJECTIVE (3)

1. willing to give and share unstintingly;
- Example: "a generous donation"

2. not petty in character and mind;
- Example: "unusually generous in his judgment of people"

3. more than adequate;
- Example: "a generous portion"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Generous \Gen"er*ous\, a. [F. g['e]n['e]reux, fr. L. generous of
   noble birth, noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth,
   race: cf. It. generoso. See 2d Gender.]
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   1. Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.]
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            The generous and gravest citizens.    --Shak.
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   2. Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded
      as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous;
      spirited; courageous. "The generous critic." --Pope. "His
      generous spouse." --Pope. "A generous pack [of hounds]."
      --Addison.
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   3. Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly;
      munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
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   4. Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a
      generous table. --Swift.
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   5. Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as,
      generous wine.

   Syn: Magnanimous; bountiful. See Liberal. --
        Gen"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Gen"er*ous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

generous
    adj 1: willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous
           donation" [ant: stingy, ungenerous]
    2: not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his
       judgment of people" [ant: meanspirited, ungenerous]
    3: more than adequate; "a generous portion"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

183 Moby Thesaurus words for "generous":
   abounding, abundant, accommodating, affable, affluent, agreeable,
   all-sufficing, almsgiving, altruistic, amiable, ample, aplenty,
   beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, big, bighearted,
   blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, bursting,
   bursting out, capacious, charitable, chivalrous, complaisant,
   compliant, comprehensive, conciliatory, considerate, copious,
   cordial, countless, creative, decent, diffuse, disinterested,
   effuse, eleemosynary, elevated, epidemic, exalted, exhaustless,
   expansive, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fair, fat, fecund,
   fertile, flourishing, flush, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving,
   free, freehanded, freehearted, friendly, fructiferous, fruitful,
   full, galore, genial, giving, good, gracious, great,
   great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hearty, helpful, heroic,
   high, high-minded, honest, hospitable, humane, humanitarian,
   idealistic, in plenty, in quantity, indulgent, inexhaustible, kind,
   kindhearted, kindly, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish,
   lenient, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, lush,
   luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, multitudinous,
   munificent, neighborly, noble, noble-minded, numerous, obliging,
   open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing,
   overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, permissive, philanthropic,
   placable, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pregnant,
   prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse,
   profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, receptive, replete,
   rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, spacious, sparing,
   stintless, sublime, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thoughtful,
   thriving, tolerant, tolerating, uberous, ungrudging, unprejudiced,
   unresentful, unrevengeful, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted,
   unstinting, voluminous, warm, warmhearted, wealthy, welcoming,
   welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-found, well-furnished,
   well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, willing



The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

GENEROUS, adj.  Originally this word meant noble by birth and was
rightly applied to a great multitude of persons.  It now means noble
by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.