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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. very generous;
- Example: "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"
- Example: "the critics were lavish in their praise"
- Example: "a munificent gift"
- Example: "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"
- Example: "prodigal praise"
- Example: "unsparing generosity"
- Example: "his unstinted devotion"
- Example: "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
[syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Munificent \Mu*nif"i*cent\, a. [L. munificus; munus service,
   gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make. Cf. Immunity, -fy.]
   Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent
   benefactor. -- Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv.

   Syn: Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

munificent
    adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand";
           "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
           gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother
           a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal
           praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted
           devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn:
           lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous,
           unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "munificent":
   bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, freehearted,
   generous, giving, gracious, greathearted, handsome, hospitable,
   large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, open,
   openhanded, openhearted, princely, profuse, stintless, ungrudging,
   unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting