Generous

Definitions: Generous

Generous

Adjective

1. Willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation".

2. Not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people".

3. More than adequate; "a generous portion".

Date "generous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Generous (g soft). Generous as Hatim. An Arabian expression. Hatim was a Bedouin chief famous for his warlike deeds and boundless generosity. His son was contemporary with Mahomet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Generous

Synonym: ingenuous. (additional references)

Antonyms: stingy (adj), ungenerous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disinterestedness	Adjective: disinterested; unselfish; self-denying, self-sacrificing, self-devoted; generous.
Liberality	Adjective: liberal, free, generous; charitable; (beneficent); hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.
Philanthropy	Adjective: philanthropic, humanitarian, utilitarian, cosmopolitan; public-spirited, patriotic; humane, large-hearted; (benevolent); chivalric; generous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Mr. Lebowski is prepared to make a generous offer to you to act as courier, once we get instructions for the money. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Then nobody is selfish, everybody is generous and you've got 25 new best friends. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) I'm the one with the hangover. B-12, B-Complex, Crude Liver, and a generous jolt of adrenal cortex. (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards) Sarah i have been generous till now and i can be cruel. (Labyrinth; writing credit: Dennis Lee; Jim Henson) Aw, he's being generous. (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman)
Lyrics	You've been so kind and generous, I don't know how you keep on giving ("Kind and Generous"; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)
Movie/TV Titles	Her Generous Way (1909)
Song Titles	Kind & Generous (performing artist: Natalie Merchant)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Generous Impulse: The Story of George Sweeting (reference) Creating Congregations of Generous People (Money, Faith, and Lifestyle Series) (reference) Generous Death (reference) Generous Death: A Jenny Cain Mystery (reference) Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (Early American Studies) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Generous Portions (reference) Hidden Place (Pt.1) / Generous Palmstroke [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	From an overhead angle, a blue bowl of cereal and a sandwich on a plate, sitting on a yellow tablecloth, are shown in opposite corners of the frame. A broken muffin lies between them in the center. The red lettering in the upper left reads: "Eat 3-5 generous servings of whole grain breads and cereals every day". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" May 1989. See artwork: PV-19.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		Such a generous soul.Credit: Library of Congress.
	"Bill passed providing for two new military posts" by the generous Democratic house / Th. Nast.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Euripides	To generous souls every task is noble.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Junius	How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne	The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Samuel Johnson	Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Sidney J. Harris	People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Thomas Fuller	A generous confession disarms slander.
William Ellery Channing	To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Zsa Zsa Gabor	Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He praised her for being without art or affectation, for having simple, honest, generous, feelings.
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	And his great generous soul seemed so filled with noble ambition as to have no space left for any vain regret or selfish repining.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	But the long habit of victory has made them generous.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The generous quarrel recommenced.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I took leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favor and made me a generous present at my departure.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Danish firm, Micon, has been very generous with credit. (references)
		European suppliers are often more generous in granting credit terms. (references)
		Severance compensation is generous and management latitude to alter its workforce is restricted. (references)
Civil Liberties	Hong Kong	In so doing, the Court effectively overturned a 150-year old guideline for defamation cases and called for a more generous approach toward the defense of fair comment by ruling that honest remarks, even those made with malice, could still be construed as fair comments. (references)
Economic History	Mauritius	Laid-off workers receive generous severance pay. (references)
	Israel	Priority area A receives the most generous treatment and area C, the least. (references)
Political Economy	Sweden	It favors unrestricted immigration and generous aid to developing countries. (references)
	AUSTRIA	Workers as well as the jobless are entitled to a variety of generous social benefits that guarantee a high standard of living on average. (references)
	IRELAND	Much of this will be funded by Irish tax payers as opposed to previous national development plans, which were funded by generous EU transfers. (references)
Political Rights	Bangladesh	Party leaders appoint candidates for elections; many allege that some candidates effectively "purchase" nomination from party leaders with generous campaign contributions or personal "gifts." Under a 1996 constitutional amendment, general parliamentary elections are presided over by a caretaker government, led by the most recently retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or, if he is unfit or unwilling, another senior retired justice or other neutral figure. (references)
Trade	Ireland	International firms investing in Ireland may take advantage of the generous investment incentives provided by the Irish government through IDA Ireland, the state organization responsible for attracting international investment into Ireland. (references)
Travel	Greece	Greeks are warm, cordial, and generous, and will often insist on paying for meals or entertainment, a courtesy which should be accepted with gratitude and reciprocated another time. (references)
Worker Rights	Austria	Every worker is entitled to a variety of generous social benefits. (references)
	Brunei	Wage and benefit packages are based on market conditions and tend to be generous. (references)
	Macedonia	The country has an official 42-hour workweek with a minimum 24-hour rest period and generous vacation and sick leave benefits. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Marlo Thomas	You are wonderful. I said it when we were off the air, and I want to say that you are loving and generous, and you like women, and it's a pleasure. And whoever the women is in your life is very lucky.
Nellie Connally	The people couldn't have been friendlier. The crowds couldn't have been more wonderful, more generous in their reaction to the president.
Pierce Brosnan	Halle and I have become very good friends. She is somebody who I got on with greatly, very fond of her. She is a woman who is at the top of her game, and she is very generous, and a good heart.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	Because the proposed establishment is a departure from the generous policy, which, offering an Asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of every Nation and Religion, promised a luster to our country, and an accession to the number of its citizens.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Local jealousies are rapidly yielding to more generous, enlarged, and enlightened views of national policy.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	More just and generous sentiments will, I trust, prevail.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous.
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889; 1893-1897	I find also much comfort in remembering that my countrymen are just and generous and in the assurance that they will not condemn those who by sincere devotion to their service deserve their forbearance and approval.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Each State will bring its generous contribution to the great aggregate of the nation's increase.
Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909	We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	A generous country will never forget the services you rendered, and you may hope for a policy under Government that will relieve any maimed successors from taking your places on another such occasion as this.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	The Congress has earned the gratitude of the world by generous financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Generous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.40% of the time. "Generous" is used about 2,319 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.4%	2,305	3,854
Noun (proper)	0.6%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	2,319	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "generous" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Generous	Last name	100	84,694
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "generous".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Gennadi	Male	Russian	To be noble and generous
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "generous": be generous ♦ become generous ♦ generous mouth. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "generous": generous-hearted, generous-looking, generous-minded, generous-mouthed, generous-sized, generous-spirited.
	Ending with "generous": over-generous.
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Language		Translations for "generous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemërgjerë (big hearted, bountiful, great-hearted, large-hearted, merciful, noble-minded, tolerant), zemërbardhë (bountiful, good hearted, gracious, ungrudging), xhymert (spendthrift), plot aromë, i bollshëm (affluent, ample, exuberant, fat, flush, fulsome, good, hearty, heavy, lavish, liberal, man-sized, over, plenteous, plenty, profuse, spacious), fisnik (aristocrat, blue-blooded, gallant, gent, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gently born, grand, great, high minded, knight, knightly, lofty, moral, nobiliary, noble, nobleman, patrician), bujar (big, bounteous, bountiful, disinterested, free-handed, gentle, gentlemanlike, good, good hearted, handsome, lavish, liberal, nobleman, open handed, princely, unselfish). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), ‏معطاء (open handed), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), ‏واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏سخي (bounteous, freehanded, lavish, liberal, munificent, noble-minded, open, open handed, princely, prodigal, rich, well-paid), ‏زاخر (copious, full, teeming), ‏طعام كثير, ‏جواد (bounteous, bountiful, liberal, munificent, steed), ‏الكريم (kind), ‏السخي (philanthropist). (various references)

Bulgarian		силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, flush, free, freehanded, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted), великодушен (bighearted, great-hearted, handsome, large-hearted, magnanimous, noble-minded), обилен (abundant, affluent, ample, exuberant, full, hearty, liberal, lusty, plentiful, rich, satisfying, ungrudging), богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), благороден (exalted, gentle, grand, high minded, honorable, honourable, humane, magnanimous, noble-minded, sublime, white), плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, hearty, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank, rich). (various references)

Chinese		雍容大度 , 綽 (ample, spacious, well-off, wide), 厚 (embankment, thick), 慷慨, 慷 (magnanimous), 慨 (sad), 大方 . (various references)

Czech		velkorysý (benevolent, big, broad, broadminded, charitable, gracious, high minded, liberal, noble-minded, ungrudging, unsparing), kavalírský (chivalrous, gentlemanly), hojný (abundant, ample, copious, effusive, full, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, superfluous), bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, extensive, exuberant, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off), úrodný (fecund, fertile, fruitful, good, productive, rich), štìdrý (bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, lavish, munificent, open handed, open-hearted, profuse, unguarded, unsparing), šlechetný (big hearted, charitable, noble-minded, open-hearted). (various references)

Danish		gavmild. (various references)

Dutch		royaal (extensive, spacious, vast, wide), gul (Atlantic cod, cod, codfish, codling), goedgeefs, genereus. (various references)

Esperanto		malavara, donacema. (various references)

Farsi		سخی (Bounteous, Charitable, Liberal), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), بخشنده (Bounteous, Donor, Gracious, Indulgent, Merciful). (various references)

Finnish		jalomielinen (liberal, magnanimous, noble-minded), aulis (bounteous, liberal, ready, willing), antelias (liberal, openhanded). (various references)

French		généreux (genial). (various references)

German		freigebig (bounteously, bountiful, bountifully, free, lavish, lavishly, munificent, munificently, open handed, openhanded, profuse), großzügig (ambitious, bounteous, bountiful, bountifully, broad, broad minded, broadminded, charitably, free, freehanded, generously, handsome, handsomely, large, large scale, lavish, lavishly, liberal, liberally, lordly, noble, open handed, spacious, tolerant, ungrudging, ungrudgingly, unsparing, unsparingly, unstinting, unstintingly, warm-hearted), freizügig (free to move, freely, liberal, permissive). (various references)

Greek		γενναιόδωροσ (bounteous, bountiful, free-handed, lavish, munificent, open handed), γενναίοσ (brave, courageous, gallant, manful, mettlesome), πλουσιοπάροχοσ (munificent), ανοιχτοχέρησ (open handed). (various references)

Hebrew		טוב לב (affable, benign, good hearted, goodness, kind, kindhearted, kindness), רחב י�" (open handed), � �"יב לב (benignant, bounteous, bountiful), � �"יב (benefactor, benevolent, donor, munificent, openhanded), � �"ב� י (charitable, munificent, philanthropical). (various references)

Hungarian		nagylelkű (bounteous, bountiful, broad, large, magnanimous, munificent), bőkezű (bounteous, bountiful, charitable, handsome, large, munificent). (various references)

Indonesian		dermawan (benefactor, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, donor, philanthropist), beramal (charitable, pray silently). (various references)

Irish		flaithiúil. (various references)

Italian		liberale (freehanded, lavish, liberal, liberally, lordly, open handed, openhanded). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		過分 (excessive, unmerited), 鷹揚 (largehearted), �"�い (delicious, easy-going, fond of, indulgent, naive, overly optimistic, soft on, sweet), 気が大きい , 太っ腹 (magnanimous), 大様 (largehearted), 大まか (broad, general, rough), 心の広い (broad-minded), 寛闊 (largehearted), 寛恕 (magnanimous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おおまか (broad, general, rough), おおよう (catholicity, generosity, generousness, largehearted, largeheartedness, liberality, magnanimity), おうよう (application, largehearted, put to practical use), きがおおきい, ふとっぱら (magnanimous), かぶ�" (divisible, enquiring beforehand, excessive, limited information, separable, unmerited), か�"かつ (control, jurisdiction, largehearted), か�"じょ (court lady, gentle and quiet, magnanimous), �"�"ろのひろい (broad-minded), あまい (easy-going, fond of, indulgent, naive, overly optimistic, soft on, sweet). (various references)

Korean		관후한. (various references)

Manx		feoiltagh (benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, hospitable, lavish, liberal, munificent, ungrudging, whig), feoilt (benevolent, bountiful, munificent, open-handed). (various references)

Norwegian		rundhåndet, høysinnet (highminded). (various references)

Pig Latin		enerousgay

Portuguese		generoso (big heart, boon, bounteous, chivalrous, enlarged, flush, large, large handed, large minded, large-hearted, lavish, magnate, open-hearted, selfless, soft-hearted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, warm-hearted, whole-souled). (various references)

Romanian		generos (benevolent, boon, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, free-handed, freehearted, generously, great-hearted, handsome, high minded, large, large-hearted, largely, lavish, liberally, munificent, noble, open handed, open-hearted, profuse, warm), galantom (generously), galant (chivalrous, courteous, gallant, gallantly, gentle, polite, swaggering), productiv (active, efficacious, efficient, efficiently, productive, productively, rich), milostiv (forgiving, gracious, merciful), mãrinimos (freehearted, great-hearted, handsome, high minded, magnanimous, magnanimously, noble, noble-minded), inimos (buxom, courageous, passionate, spirited), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), fertil (fat, fatty, fertile, fruitful, luxuriant, productive, rank, rich), darnic (boon, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, free-handed, large, large handed, lavish, lordly, munificent), copios (copious, plentiful, sumptuous), cavaler (admirer, bachelor, beau, cavalier, escort, gallant, gentleman, horseman, knight, paladin, squire), bogat şi cald, altruist (altruist, altruistic, unselfish). (various references)

Russian		щедрый (bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, free-handed, handsome, large, large handed, large-handed, lavish, liberal, munificent, open handed, profuse, ungrudging), крепкий (able bodied, beefy, burly, copper-bottomed, fast, firm, hard, hearty, knitted, lusty, oaky, rocky, rugged, solid, stiff, strong, sturdy, tenacious, trig, unbeaten, wakeless, well-built, well-set), великодушный (benign, benignant, big, bighearted, big-hearted, forgiving, great-hearted, large-hearted, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, open handed, open-hearted), обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, torrential, ungrudging). (various references)

Scottish		fial (bounteous, liberal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		velikodušan (freehearted, great-hearted, high minded, large-hearted, magnanimous, munificent, noble-minded), izdašan (lavish, plenteous, plentiful), darežljiv (bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, liberal, munificent, openhanded). (various references)

Spanish		generoso (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, generosity, liberal, munificent, noble-minded, open handed, rich, selfless, ungrudging, unsparing), dadivoso (open handed, openhanded). (various references)

Swedish		givmild (liberal, open handed, open-handed), generös (big, big hearted, free-handed, free-hearted, handsome, large, large handed, lavish, liberal, open handed, ungrudging, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting), frikostlig, ädelmodig (high minded, nobel-minded). (various references)

Turkish		zengin (affluent, bonanza, fertile, in the chips, in the money, moneyed, opulent, propertied, prosperous, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-endowed), yüce gönüllü (big hearted, high minded), verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, grateful, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, yielding), eli açık (big hearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, freehearted, large handed, munificent, open handed, openhanded, profuse), cömert (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, flush, freehanded, freehearted, handsome, large handed, liberal, munificent, open handed, openhanded, profuse, ungrudging, unsparing), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), bereketli (abundant, copious, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rank, rich), alícenap. (various references)

Turkmen		rehimli (compassionate, sorrowful), rehimdar (compassionate, sorrowful). (various references)

Ukranian		родючий (battle, benign, fecund, fertile, fruitful, luxuriant, productive, rich), щедрий (boon, bounteous, charitable, flush, free-handed, free-hearted, handsome, munificent, open, open handed, prodigal, profuse, ungrudging, wanton), чималий (considerable, sizable, sizeable, Wally), великодушний (benevolent, chivalrous, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, open-hearted). (various references)

Vietnamese		rộng lượng (catholic, large-hearted), khoan h�"ng rộng rãi, h� o phóng thịnh soạn m� u mỡ. (various references)

Welsh		rhyddfrydig (liberal), haelionus (benevolent, liberal), haelfrydig (free), hael (liberal), aelaw (frequent, rich, wealth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	benefici, beneficus, benignus, generosus, liberali, liberalis, liberalissimi, magnanimorum, munificus, probus, prolixae, prolixior, prolixius. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	aredrâi, râtãm. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	cystig. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	liberal. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "generous": generously, generousness, generousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "generous": congenerous, overgenerous, ungenerous. (additional references)
	Words containing "generous": overgenerously, ungenerously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Generous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enarques, geneious, genenous, geneous, generis, Generose, Genevoise, genious, ginepro, teterous, veneryous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "generous" (pronounced je"nerus)
4	-n er u s	onerous, overgenerous, sonorous.
3	-er u s	adulterous, adventurous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, numerous, odorous, omnivorous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unglamorous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-n-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: surgeon.
	-2 letters: ensure, enures, erugos, genres, genros, goners, greens, grouse, rogues, rouens, rouges, rugose.
	-3 letters: egers, ensue, enure, ernes, erose, erugo, euros, genes, genre, genro, genus, goers, goner, gores, gorse, green, grees, grues, negus, nurse, ogees, ogres, reges, reuse, rogue, rouen, roues, rouge, rouse, runes, rungs, segno, segue, senor, serge, sneer, snore, surge, urges.
	-4 letters: eger, egos, engs, eons, ergo, ergs, erne, erns, eros, euro, gees, gene, gens, genu, gnus, goer, goes, gone, gore, gree, grue, guns, noes, nogs, nose, nous, ogee, ogre, ones, onus, ores, ours, rees, regs, roes, rose, roue, rues, rugs, rune, rung, runs, ruse, seen, seer, sego, sene, sere, snog, snug, sone, song, sore, sorn, sour, suer, sung, sure, urge, urns, user.
	-5 letters: ego, eng, ens, eon, ere, erg, ern, ers, gee, gen, gnu, gor, gos, gun, nee, nog, nor, nos, nus, oes, one, ons, ore, ors, ose, our, ree, reg, res, roe, rue, rug, run, see, seg, sen, ser, son, sou, sue, sun, uns, urn, use.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-n-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: erogenous, undergoes.
	+2 letters: encourages, entourages, generously, greenhouse, ungenerous.
	+3 letters: congenerous, congruences, encouragers, greenhouses, groundsheet, monseigneur, neurologies, outgenerals, outsteering, roughnesses, terrigenous.
	+4 letters: beardtongues, congruencies, fluegelhorns, generousness, gorgeousness, grievousness, groundsheets, gruesomeness, heterogenous, neurosurgeon, neurosurgery, numerologies, outbreedings, overgenerous, overindulges, oversanguine, reconfigures, supersurgeon, ungenerosity, ungenerously, youngberries.
	+5 letters: argentiferous, clearinghouse, counteragents, counterargues, counterimages, countersigned, dangerousness, deregulations, deuteragonist, egregiousness, forgetfulness, garnetiferous, grotesqueness, grouchinesses, groundskeeper, heterogeneous, housebreaking, incongruences, neurosurgeons, overingenious, prolegomenous, religiousness, rendezvousing, reregulations, righteousness, roguishnesses, subgeneration, subgovernment, superregional, supersurgeons, surgeonfishes, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, underexposing, unprogressive.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6E 65 72 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--. . -. . .-. --- ..- ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0065 0072 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
generous	37
generous kind	16
generous net	16
generous george	14
generous giving	6
generous kind merchant natalie	5
generous kind lyrics	5
generous jerrys	5
flax generous	4
generous kind lyrics merchant natalie	4
generous pages.prodigy.net	4
generous george pizza	4
generous size	3
adventure generous	3
generous oak	3
gem generous	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Generous

Definitions: Generous

Generous

Adjective

Specialty Definitions: Generous

Synonym: Generous

Synonyms within Context: Generous

Disinterestedness

Liberality

Philanthropy

Crosswords: Generous

Modern Usage: Generous

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Generous

Books

Music

Image Slideshow: Generous

Computer Images:Generous

Photo Album: Generous

Familiar Quotations: Generous

Euripides

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Junius

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Samuel Johnson

Sidney J. Harris

Thomas Fuller

William Ellery Channing

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Historic Usage: Generous

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Generous

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Generous

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Generous

Marlo Thomas

Nellie Connally

Pierce Brosnan

Speeches: Generous

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Roosevelt

Warren G. Harding

Harry S. Truman

George W. Bush

Usage Frequency: Generous

Name Usage Frequency: Generous

Derived & Related Names: Generous

Expression: Generous

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Generous

generous

generous kind

generous net

generous george

generous giving

generous kind merchant natalie

generous kind lyrics

generous jerrys

flax generous

generous kind lyrics merchant natalie

Computer Images:
Generous