Lavish vs Monotonous - What's the difference?
lavish | monotonous |
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, 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:
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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.
having an unvarying tone or pitch
tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
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
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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