Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: profuse
IPA transcription: [pɹəfj'us]
Pronunciations of profuse
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous
    Meaning: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
Usage examples
  • The young husband's apologies were profuse and abject.
  • TAIL--Curled and carried well up on loins; long, profuse straight feather.
  • "The symptoms are intense fever, prostration, vomiting, diarrhoea, sneezing, cough, and profuse discharge from the nose and eyes.
  • What pretensions has a man to our generous assistance or good offices, who has dissipated his wealth in profuse expenses, idle vanities, chimerical projects, dissolute pleasures or extravagant gaming?
  • It should be absolutely free from wave or curl, and not lie too flat, but have a tendency to stand out, especially at the neck, so as to give a thick mane or ruff, which with profuse feathering on thighs and tail gives a very showy appearance.
  • Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning; The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.
  • From the introduction of Christianity among the Saxons, there had been monasteries in England; and these establishments had extremely multiplied by the donations of the princes and nobles, whose superstition, derived from their ignorance and precarious life, and increased by remorses for the crimes into which they were so frequently betrayed, knew no other expedient for appeasing the Deity, than a profuse liberality towards the ecclesiastics.
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