Generous

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English

Adjective

Generous (comparative more Generous, superlative most Generous)

  1. (obsolete) Of noble birth.
  2. Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
    Thank you for your generous words.
  3. Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
    She's been extremely generous with her winnings.
  4. Large, more than ample, copious.

Adverbs for Generous

sincerely; quixotically; fantastically; ostentatiously; publicly; extremely; altruistically; charitably; benevolently; instinctively; distinctly; spontaneously; lavishly; extravagantly; habitually; truly; genuinely; amazingly; notably; essentially; magnificently; splendidly; essentially; unselfishly.

Synonyms for Generous

noble, beneficent, liberal, bountiful, honorable, charitable, free, open-handed, munificent, open-hearted, high-minded, magnanimous, chivalrous, unselfish, whole-hearted, forgiving.

Antonyms for Generous

selfish, miserly, closefisted, parsimonious, illiberal, sparing, penurious, stingy, uncharitable, avaricious, mean, sordid, greedy, grasping, covetous, petty, rapacious.

Related terms

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From Middle French genereux, and its source, Latin generōsus (“of noble birth”), from genus (“race, stock”).

Pronunciation

Translations

willing to give and share unsparingly
noble in character, magnanimous
large, ample
of noble birth
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