generous
adjective (SIZE) /ˈdʒen.ər.əs/
/-ɚ-/ Definition
C1 larger than usual or expected: a generous slice of cake a generous pay increasePlenty and abundant generously /-li/ adverb B2 Please give generously to Children in Need. The jacket is very generously cut.Generous and charitableCharity organizationsPlenty and abundant
(Definition of generous adjective (SIZE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- abound in/with sth phrasal verb
- abound verb
- abundance noun
- abundant adjective
- ample adjective (ENOUGH)
- aplenty adjective
- bounty noun (KINDNESS)
- free-flowing adjective
- fruitfulness noun (PLANT)
- galore adjective
- generosity noun
- lavish adjective
- liberal adjective (GENEROUS)
- manifold adjective
- plenty pronoun, noun, adverb
- profuse adjective
- prolific adjective
- richly adverb
- richness noun (A LOT OF STH)
- superabundant adjective
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