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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, adjective [L. profusus, p. p. of profundere to pour forth or out; pro forward, forth + fundere to pour: cf. F. profus. See {Fuse} to melt.]
1. Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. --Milton.
2. Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure. ''Profuse ornament.'' --Kames.
Syn: Lavish; exuberant; bountiful; prodigal; extravagant.
Usage: {Profuse}, {Lavish}, {Prodigal}. Profuse denotes pouring out (as money, etc.) with great fullness or freeness; as, profuse in his expenditures, thanks, promises, etc. Lavish is stronger, implying unnecessary or wasteful excess; as, lavish of his bounties, favors, praises, etc. Prodigal is stronger still, denoting unmeasured or reckless profusion; as, prodigal of one's strength, life, or blood, to secure some object. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Profuse \Pro*fuse"\, verb (used with an object) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.] --Chapman.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
profuse
adjective: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {riotous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "profuse": abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with, all-sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, ballyhooed, bighearted, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, considerable, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flush, formless, free, freehanded, freehearted, fruitful, full, galore, generous, giving, gracious, grandiloquent, greathearted, gushing, gushy, handsome, high-flown, hospitable, hyperbolic, immoderate, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam-packed, jammed, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, magnified, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous, open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, populous, pound-foolish, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profligate, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, spendthrift, stintless, stretched, studded, superabundant, superlative, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, touted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wasteful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale
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