English > generous: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | willing to give and share unstintingly. |
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| Example | "a generous donation" |
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| Attribute of | generosity, generousness | The trait of being willing / willing to give your money or time |
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| Narrower | benevolent, freehearted | Generous in providing aid to others |
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| big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded | Given or giving freely |
| lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting | Very generous |
| unselfish | not greedy |
| See also | charitable | Full of love and generosity / generosity |
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| generous | not petty in character and mind |
| unselfish | disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others |
| Opposite | stingy, ungenerous | Unwilling to spend |
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| Spanish | generosa, generoso |
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| Catalan | generós |
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| Nouns | generosity | acting generously |
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| generousness | the trait of being willing / willing to give your money or time |
| Adverbs | generously | in a generous manner |
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