profuse

From Latin profusus.

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfjuːs/

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• Rhymes: -uːs

profuse (comparative more profuse, superlative most profuse)

1. abundant or generous to the point of excess.

   She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.

   profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours

profuse (third-person singular simple present profuses, present participle profusing, simple past and past participle profused)

1. (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book XXIV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Mercury, thy help hath been profused

     The spelling has been modernized.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.fyz/
• Homophone: profuses

profuse

1. feminine singular of profus

• IPA^(key): /proˈfu.ze/
• Rhymes: -uze
• Hyphenation: pro‧fù‧se

profuse

1. third-person singular past historic of profondere

profuse f pl

1. feminine plural of profuso

profūse

1. vocative masculine singular of profūsus

• “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• profuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.