profuse
/prəˈfjuːs
/adjective
1(Especially of something offered or discharged) very plentiful; abundant: I offered my profuse apologies...
- Amid profuse offers of distilled beverages, baloney sandwiches, and hard-boiled eggs, I got in the car and drove off.
- After one outburst, Flaubert offered profuse apologies and swore never again to behave as he had.
- I have been offered a profuse apology by the individual concerned, and I have accepted it.
Synonyms
copious, prolific, abundant, ample, extravagant, lavish, liberal, unstinting, fulsome, effusive, gushing, immoderate, unrestrained, excessive, inordinate
informal over the top, gushy
1.1 archaic (Of a person) extravagant: they are profuse in hospitality...
- My brother and his wife were profuse in their appreciation.
- Besides, politicians were profuse enough, serving mostly to stagnate government and delay any true progress.
- I was born into a family profuse in its ambition but lacking in its activism.
Derivatives
profuseness
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'extravagant'): from Latin profusus 'lavish, spread out', past participle of profundere, from pro- 'forth' + fundere 'pour'.
Rhymes
- commission business
- commission chairman
- commission day
- commissionee
- commissioner
- commissioner for oaths
- commissioner general
- commissioners' court
- commissioner's court
- commissioners court
- commission house
- commissioning editor
- commissionise
- commissionize
- commissionless
- commission man
- commission merchant
- commission note
- commission officer
- commission of the peace
- commission rank
- commissionship
- commission store
- commissive
- commissively