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Lamish vs Lavish - What's the difference?

lamish | lavish |

As adjectives the difference between lamish and lavish

is that lamish is somewhat lame while lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.

As a verb lavish is

to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

lamish

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Somewhat lame.
  • * 1855 , The new sporting magazine (page 446)
  • I was rather puzzled about Wild Dayrell's chance at first, when a big light horse, with "P" on the sheets and a lamish hock, passed me; but I soon found out my error, and joined the cortige of the real Simon Pure.
    (Webster 1913)

    lavish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
  • Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
  • * 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
  • Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes

    Synonyms

    * (expending profusely): profuse, prodigal, wasteful, extravagant, exuberant, immoderate * See also

    Verb

    (es)
  • To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
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