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Entry Word:: profuse
Function:: adjective

Text: pouring forth in great amounts<we received profuse thanks for our efforts><a profuse rush of water from the collapsing dike>Synonymscopious, galore, gushing, lavish, riotousRelated Wordsabounding, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, liberal, plenteous, plentiful; extravagant, luxuriant; fat, fecund, fertile; free, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting; excessive, immoderate; adequate, complete, enough, sufficientNear Antonymsmeager, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, spare, sparse, stingy; deficient, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, unsatisfactory, wanting; bare, mere, minimal; slight, smallAntonymsdribbling, trickling

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