Lavish vs Austere - What's the difference?
lavish | austere |
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
As adjectives the difference between lavish and austere
is that lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal while austere is grim or severe in manner or appearance.As a verb lavish
is to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.lavish
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes
Synonyms
* (expending profusely): profuse, prodigal, wasteful, extravagant, exuberant, immoderate * See alsoVerb
(es)Anagrams
*austere
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
- The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.