1. Characterized by extravagance and profusion
   "a lavish buffet";
   - lucullan, plush, plushy
    
2. Very generous
   "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "lavish praise";
   - munificent, overgenerous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

1. Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
   "He was lavished with praise";
   - shower

Derived forms: lavished, lavishes, lavishing

See also: generous, rich, slap-up [Brit, informal]

Type of: consume, squander, ware [archaic], waste

Encyclopedia: Lavish