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profuse
adjective as in abundant, excessive
Weak matches
- abounding
- alive with
- ample
- aplenty
- bounteous
- bountiful
- copious
- crawling with
- dime a dozen
- extravagant
- extreme
- exuberant
- fulsome
- galore
- generous
- immoderate
- lavish
- liberal
- lush
- luxuriant
- no end
- openhanded
- opulent
- overflowing
- plentiful
- plenty
- prodigal
- profusive
- prolific
- riotous
- sumptuous
- superfluous
- swarming
- teeming
- thick with
- unstinting
Example Sentences
Both of these factors occur during intense athletic activity, which results in profuse sweating.
But moving up the hill I was still caught by some smoke, causing profuse coughing, eye watering, and a runny nose.
Kerri Conan gets profuse thanks in How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.
All harvest profuse expressions of sympathy and prayers for the families and the communities.
At last Mr. Snapper could blow no more, and with profuse thanks we gathered ourselves, together and departed.
The details, which although profuse, in no way obscure the work as a whole, are so interesting.
He was a profuse talker; ran a stream every time you looked at him; it was like turning on a mill-race.
It was at this point that some young villager called, in profuse compliment: "Three cheers for the Prince!"
The high altar is very choice and beautiful; and the contiguous decorations are profuse and exquisite.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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