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Sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious
“Outstanding frescoes adorn the halls of this lavish hotel housed in an 18th-century royal palace.”
Expensive or costly in price
“Often the expenditures, lavish dinners, and corporate sponsorship bore no relationship to the success of the subsidiary.”
Given or provided abundantly or in large quantities
“He paid lavish praise to the girls for their wonderful liturgy.”
Excessive or extreme in degree, level or amount
“The text has to fight too often against the illustrations which, because of the lavish use of shading, produce a cluttered, even gloomy, effect.”
Extravagantly wasteful in nature
“These millionaires combined philanthropy with lavish spending on fine houses and ostentatious entertainment.”
Expending or bestowing generously or profusely
“He was a lavish philanthropist, endowing hospitals and libraries, as well as the famous art gallery.”
Complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree
Significantly large in size, amount, value or degree
Exceeding what is normal or necessary
Having or including many small details or features
Having or appearing to have no limits
Verbose or unfocused in speech or expression
To bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on
“Over the next three meals, she had steadily turned up the heat, and all he ever did was lavish compliments on the quality and quantity of the food.”
To use or spend recklessly or wastefully
“The adjoining hotel is more like a large boarding house, and is all that is necessary for those who are not inclined to lavish their funds on the larger life of travel.”
To hand over or expend as payment
To provide someone with something in a continuous, generous or insistent way
To fall or cause to fall in large or overwhelming quantities like, or as of, rain
To transfer the possession of something to someone
A sufficient amount of
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