| 单词 | generous |
| 释义 | generous (once / 111 pages) adj Generous people are the ones who give more than is expected of them. It's generous of your friend to take the couch and let you sleep in the bed when you stay over at her place. She didn't have to do that. When you decide to go one step beyond what's expected of you, you're being generous. A generous helping of food is a bigger than expected scoop of mashed potatoes. A generous teacher is one who volunteers to stay after school to help you with your homework. Be generous yourself: don't forget the letter o when you spell the word generous. Just think of it as a generous act, throwing that extra letter in there. WORD FAMILYgenerous: generosity, generousest, generously, generousness, overgenerous, ungenerous+/generosity: generosities/overgenerous: overgenerously/ungenerous: ungenerously USAGE EXAMPLESThere are some incredibly generous credit card sign-up bonuses available now, including 100,000-point offers from certain Chase and American Express products. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Keynes’s arguments for a more generous settlement were prescient. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) On set, Mills is his best self: assured, curious, generous. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj willing to give and share unstintingly a generous donation Syn|Ant charitable full of love and generosity benevolent, freeheartedgenerous in providing aid to others big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhandedgiven or giving freely lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstintingvery generous unselfishnot greedy unselfishdisregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others stingy, ungenerous unwilling to spend uncharitablelacking love and generosity beggarly, mean(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt cheap, chinchy, chintzyembarrassingly stingy cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinnygiving or spending with reluctance closefisted, hardfisted, tightfistedunwilling to part with money grudging, niggardly, scrimypetty or reluctant in giving or spending mean, mingy, miserly, tight(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity parsimonious, penuriousexcessively unwilling to spend meanspirited, ungenerouslacking in magnanimity selfishconcerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others 2adj not petty in character and mind unusually generous in his judgment of people Syn|Ant big, large, magnanimous generous and understanding and tolerant ungrudgingwithout envy or reluctance meanspirited, ungenerous lacking in magnanimity stingy, ungenerousunwilling to spend 3adj more than adequate a generous portion Syn ample more than enough in size or scope or capacity |
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