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say it: LAV-ish
lavish is an adjective and verb meaning "very generous". It is pronounced /ˈlævɪʃ/ — LAV-ish. It carries 3 recorded senses.
very generous
“distributed gifts with a lavish hand”
“the critics were lavish in their praise”
“a munificent gift”
“his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent”
“prodigal praise”
“unsparing generosity”
“his unstinted devotion”
“called for unstinting aid to Britain”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lavish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.