Englishgenerous
adjective
1 generous with money:
liberal, lavish, magnanimous, munificent, giving, open-handed, free-handed, bountiful, unselfish, ungrudging, unstinting, unsparing, free, indulgent, prodigal, princely;
literary bounteous, plenteous;
rare eleemosynary, benignant.
▷antonyms selfish.
2 he was generous in spirit, often refusing to hurt an opponent in trouble:
magnanimous, kind, kindly, benevolent, beneficent, altruistic, charitable, philanthropic, noble, lofty, high-minded, big-hearted, honourable, good, unselfish, self-sacrificing, unprejudiced, disinterested.
3 you will need a generous amount of fabric:
lavish, plentiful, copious, ample, liberal, munificent, bountiful, large, huge, great, abundant, profuse, rich, bumper, flush, overflowing, superabundant, infinite, inexhaustible, opulent, prolific, teeming;
in plenty, in abundance;
informal a gogo, galore;
South African, informal lank;
literary bounteous, plenteous.
▷antonyms meagre.
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generous Oxford Dictionary of English