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A Writer's Dictionary:

profusely Definition


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profuse
adj
    1. Overflowing; exaggerated; excessive.
      Example: profuse apologies
      Thesaurus: extravagant, lavish, excessive, overflowing, teeming, fulsome, immoderate, prodigal, liberal, unstinting; Antonym: sparing.
    2. Copious.
      Example: profuse bleeding
      Thesaurus: abundant, ample, bountiful, luxuriant, prolific, copious, plentiful, generous; Antonym: sparse.
Derivative: profusely
adverb
    Derivative: profusion
    noun
      An abundance or excess of something
        Thesaurus: abundance, wealth, surplus, plethora, multitude, excess, glut, quantity, superfluity, cornucopia, bounty, riot, plenitude, luxuriance, prodigality.
    Etymology: 15c: from Latin profusus lavish, from profundere to pour forth.



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