FromLatinprofusus.
profuse (comparativemoreprofuse,superlativemostprofuse)
- abundant orgenerous to the point ofexcess; copious; volubly expressed.
She grewprofuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
profuse hospitality;profuse apologies;profuse expenditure
1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:On a green shadie Bankprofuse of Flours
In great quantity or abundance
- Bulgarian:богат (bg)(bogat),изобилен (bg)(izobilen)
- Catalan:profús (ca)
- Faroese:ógvisligur
- Finnish:ylenpalttinen (fi)
- Galician:profuso (gl)
- German:übermäßig (de),enorm (de),reichlich (de),üppig (de),überreich (de),freigiebig (de),freigebig (de)
- Hungarian:bőséges (hu)
- Irish:raidhsiúil
- Latin:profūsus
- Macedonian:бо́гат(bógat),изо́билен(izóbilen),о́билен(óbilen)
- Māori:ranea
- Persian:فراوان (fa)(farâvân)
- Portuguese:profuso
- Romanian:abundent (ro),îmbelșugat (ro)
- Russian:оби́льный (ru)(obílʹnyj)
- Slovak:štedrý,bohatý (sk),rozsiahly,veľkorysý
- Spanish:profuso (es)
- Swedish:överflödande (sv) n
- Tocharian B:īte
- Turkish:bol (tr),bolca (tr),çok (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish:كور(gür)
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profuse (third-person singular simple presentprofuses,present participleprofusing,simple past and past participleprofused)
- (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; tolavish; tosquander.
[1611?],Homer, “Book XXIV”, inGeo[rge] Chapman, transl.,The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter,→OCLC; republished asThe Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London:Charles Knight and Co., […],1843,→OCLC:Mercury, thy help hath beenprofused- The spelling has been modernized.
profuse
- femininesingular ofprofus
- IPA(key): /proˈfu.ze/
- Rhymes:-uze
- Hyphenation:pro‧fù‧se
profuse
- third-personsingular past historic ofprofondere
profuse f pl
- feminineplural ofprofuso
profūse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofprofūsus
- “profuse”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “profuse”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “profuse”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
