adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the
critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his
mother a quarter and he thought them munificent";
"prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his
unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to
Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
2: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, profligate, spendthrift]
3: marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
n : a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: profligate, squanderer]