Lavishly

Definitions: Lavishly

Lavishly

Adverb

1. In a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap".

2. In a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated".

Date "lavishly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Lavishly

Synonyms: extravagantly (adv), richly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Lavishly

English words defined with "lavishly": beset, big spender, blow ♦ encrust, exquisite, extravagantly, extravaganza ♦ high roller ♦ Prodigalize ♦ recherche ♦ spectacular, squander, squandering ♦ wine and dine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lavishly": Rococo Architecture. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Arthur Hellyer's all-colour gardening book: a lavishly illustrated guide to all that is best in decorative gardening, with full cultural instructions (reference) Encounters With Rauschenberg: (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture (reference) Garbo : the famous biography, lavishly illustrated (reference) Stephen King Goes to Hollywood: A Lavishly Illustrated Guide to All the Films Based on Stephen King's Fiction (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Lavishly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lavishly" is used about 163 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
Adverb (general)	100%	163	24,498

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lavishly": lavishly-endowed, lavishly-packaged, lavishly-produced.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "lavishly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بسخاء. (various references)

Chinese		過度 (exceeding, excessive), �"�"地. (various references)

Czech		přemrštìnì (effusively, gushingly), štìdře (generously, richly). (various references)

French		somptueusement, sans compter. (various references)

German		verschwenderisch (extravagant, lavish, luxuriantly, luxurious, prodigal, spendthrift, sumptuous, sumptuously, superfluous, superfluously, thriftlessly, uneconomical, unsparing, unsparingly, unstintingly, unthriftily, unthrifty, wasteful, wastfully), reichlich (abound, abundant, abundantly, ample, amply, bountiful, bountifully, conservative, copious, fatly, full, generous, large, liberal, numerous, opulent, overabundant, plenteous, plentiful, plentifully, plenty, profuse, profusely, richly, substantial, thick), reich (abundant, affluent, affluently, bounteous, bountiful, copious, costly, domain, empire, expensive, fertile, heavy, kingdom, large, lavish, luxuriant, opulent, ornate, prolific, prosperous, reach, realm, rich, richly, state, substantial, sumptuous, wealthily, wealthy, well-off, wide), großzügig (ambitious, bounteous, bountiful, bountifully, broad, broad minded, broadminded, charitably, free, freehanded, generous, generously, handsome, handsomely, large, large scale, lavish, liberal, liberally, lordly, noble, open handed, spacious, tolerant, ungrudging, ungrudgingly, unsparing, unsparingly, unstinting, unstintingly, warm-hearted), freigebig (bounteously, bountiful, bountifully, free, generous, lavish, munificent, munificently, open handed, openhanded, profuse), üppig (abundant, ample, elaborate, exuberant, fat, immensely rich, lavish, luscious, lusciously, lush, luxuriant, luxuriantly, luxurious, opulent, profuse, profusely, rampant, rank, rich, rolling in money, sumptuous, sumptuously, thick, voluptuous, wanton, wantonly), überschwenglich (ebullient, effusive, exalted, exuberant, glowingly, gushing, gushy, immensely rich, lavish, profuse, profusely, rolling in money, undue). (various references)

Greek		με πολυτέλεια. (various references)

Hungarian		pazarlóan (prodigally, profligately, squanderingly, wastefully), bőségesen (amply, freely, heartily, profusely, prolifically, redundantly), bőkezűen (liberally, prodigally, profligately). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		惜し気無く (generously, unsparingly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おし�'なく (generously, unsparingly). (various references)

Korean		아낌 없. (various references)

Pig Latin		avishlylay

Spanish		lujosamente (luxuriously), profusamente (extravagantly, profusely), pródigamente (unsparingly), en profusión, abundantemente (abundantly, amply, in full measure, profusely). (various references)

Thai		อย่างฟุ่มเฟือย (luxuriously). (various references)

Ukranian		щедро (bounteously, freely, largely, open-handedly), надмірно (exorbitantly, felly, hard, immensely, outrageously, overly, overmuch, profusely, unduly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	beatius, plene, plenissime, prolixius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "lavishly": slavishly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lavishly" (pronounced la"vishlē)
7	l a" v i sh l ē	slavishly.
4	-i sh l ē	bearishly, devilishly, girlishly, sluggishly, stylishly.
3	-sh l ē	bullishly, especially, feverishly, foolishly, freshly, harshly, lushly, sheepishly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-i-l-l-s-v-y"
	-2 letters: lavish, villas.
	-3 letters: hails, halls, hills, hilly, hylas, sally, shall, shaly, shill, shily, shiva, silly, silva, slily, sylva, vails, vials, villa, vills, yills.
	-4 letters: ails, alls, ally, ashy, hail, hall, hays, hila, hill, hyla, ills, illy, lash, lavs, lays, lily, sail, sall, shay, shiv, sial, sill, slay, syli, vail, vial, vill, visa, yill.
	-5 letters: ail, ais, all, als, ash, ays, has, hay, his, ill, ivy, las, lav, lay, lis, sal, say, sha, shy, sly, vas, via, vis, yah.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-i-l-l-s-v-y"
	+1 letter: slavishly.
	+4 letters: chivalrously.
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