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profuse

/pɹəˈfjuːs/

profuse adjective: abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.

Adjective

profuse (comparative more profuse, superlative most profuse)

  1. abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
    • She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
    • profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure

Verb

profuse (third-person singular simple present profuses, present participle profusing, simple past and past participle profused)

  1. (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
    • Mercury, thy help hath been profused[1611?], Homer, “Book XXIV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […]...

profuse meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

profuse in Tamil

நிறை

profuse in Urdu

فیاض, فضول خرچ, وافر

profuse in Bengali

profuse, abundant
বহু bohu

profuse in Malayalam

നിറഞ്ഞു വഴിയുന്ന, അത്യധികമായ, ധാരാളമായ, സമൃദ്ധമായ
More languagesFewer languages
profuse in Kannada
ಮಹಾ mahā
profuse in Persian
فراوان farâvân

Forms of profuse

Adjective
comparativemore profuse
superlativemost profuse
Verb
third-person singular presentprofuses
present participleprofusing
past participleprofused
pastprofused

Origin of profuse

From Latin profusus.

Words formed from profuse

Words that rhyme with profuse

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about profuse

What does profuse mean?
Profuse means abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
What is profuse in Tamil?
Profuse in Tamil is நிறை. See Profuse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is profuse?
Profuse can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce profuse?
Profuse is pronounced /pɹəˈfjuːs/.

Words near profuse in the dictionary

  1. profurca
  2. profurcae
  3. profurcal
  4. profurcasternal
  5. profurcasternum
  6. profuse
  7. profused
  8. profusely
  9. profuseness
  10. profusenesses
  11. profuser

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: profuse (page history and authors); profuse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); profuse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বহু (Bengali) (page history and authors); profuse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಮಹಾ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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