Entry Word: profuse

Function: adjective

Meaning: pouring forth in great amounts <we received profuse thanks for our efforts> <a profuse rush of water from the collapsing dike>

Synonyms copious, galore, gushing, lavish, riotous

Related Words abounding, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, liberal, plenteous, plentiful; extravagant, luxuriant; fat, fecund, fertile; free, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting; excessive, immoderate; adequate, complete, enough, sufficient

Near Antonyms meager, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, spare, sparse, stingy; deficient, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, unsatisfactory, wanting; bare, mere, minimal; slight, small

Antonyms dribbling, trickling