1 comment for “My One-Word Review of the Sweet Potato Dish I Ate at Dinner Tonight”
Manfred Cull
November 24, 2006 at 3:16 pm
munificent myoo-NIF-i-suhnt, adjective:
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; very generous; lavish.
Another munificent friend has given me the most splendid reclining chair conceivable.
— George Eliot, Letters
The fleeting movement of air inside the black tunnel before and after the passage of a train made it a source of refreshment more munificent than a roaring window air conditioner.
— Norma Field, From My Grandmother’s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
John Sr.’s paycheck, while hardly munificent, was steady, and frugality did the rest.
— Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
Munificent is from Latin munificus, “generous, bountiful,” from munus, “gift.” The quality of being munificent is munificence.
munificent myoo-NIF-i-suhnt, adjective:
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; very generous; lavish.
Another munificent friend has given me the most splendid reclining chair conceivable.
— George Eliot, Letters
The fleeting movement of air inside the black tunnel before and after the passage of a train made it a source of refreshment more munificent than a roaring window air conditioner.
— Norma Field, From My Grandmother’s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
John Sr.’s paycheck, while hardly munificent, was steady, and frugality did the rest.
— Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
Munificent is from Latin munificus, “generous, bountiful,” from munus, “gift.” The quality of being munificent is munificence.