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Lavish vs Monotonous - What's the difference?

lavish | monotonous |

As adjectives the difference between lavish and monotonous

is that lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal while monotonous is having an unvarying tone or pitch.

As a verb lavish

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

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.
  • Anagrams

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    monotonous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having an unvarying tone or pitch
  • tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
  • Synonyms

    * monotonic * samely