generous
adjective
[ ˈdʒɛn(ə)rəs ]
• showing a readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is strictly necessary or expected.
• "a generous benefactor to the University"
Similar:
liberal,
lavish,
magnanimous,
munificent,
giving,
open-handed,
free-handed,
bountiful,
unselfish,
ungrudging,
unstinting,
unsparing,
free,
indulgent,
prodigal,
princely,
bounteous,
plenteous,
eleemosynary,
benignant,
• (of a thing) larger or more plentiful than is usual or necessary.
• "a generous helping of pasta"
Similar:
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,
a gogo,
galore,
lank,
bounteous,
plenteous,
Origin:
late 16th century: via Old French from Latin generosus ‘noble, magnanimous’, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’. The original sense was ‘of noble birth’, hence ‘characteristic of noble birth, courageous, magnanimous, not mean’.
