Prolific vs Lavish - What's the difference?
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Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Similarly producing results or works in abundance
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, date=September 7
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, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
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Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, 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.
As adjectives the difference between prolific and lavish
is that prolific is fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc 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.prolific
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* prolifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.}}
Synonyms
* fertile * (fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance) fecund * (producing results or works in abundance) See alsoDerived terms
* prolificacy * prolifically * prolificity * prolificnessReferences
*lavish
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* (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