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munificent adjective [ mjʊˈnɪfɪs(ə)nt ]

• characterized by or displaying great generosity.
• "a munificent bequest"
Similar: generous, bountiful, open-handed, magnanimous, philanthropic, princely, handsome, lavish, unstinting, free-handed, unstinted, liberal, free, charitable, big-hearted, beneficent, ungrudging, bounteous,
Opposite: miserly,
Origin: late 16th century: from Latin munificent- (stem of munificentior, comparative of munificus ‘bountiful’), from munus ‘gift’.


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