generous
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
generous/ˈʤenərəs/
▶adjective
- 1 freely giving more of something than is necessary or expected.
■ kind towards others.
- 2 larger or more plentiful than is usual.
– derivatives
generously adverb,
generousness noun.
generously adverb,
generousness noun.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as generosity), in sense ‘of noble birth’: via OFr. from L. generosus ‘noble, magnanimous’.
'generous' also found in these Oxford entries:
alma mater
- beau geste
- big
- bounty
- brick
- bumper
- charitable
- decent
- fault
- frank
- free
- free-handed
- freely
- fulsome
- generosity
- great-hearted
- heart
- hospitality
- ingenuous
- kind
- large-hearted
- lavish
- liberal
- Maecenas
- magnanimous
- munificent
- open-handed
- overgenerous
- overtip
- Pickwickian
- princely
- richly
- spirited
- sporting
- trump
- ungenerous
