generous
adjective/ˈdʒenərəs/
(approving)Слово англійською: generous
Переклад generous українською: великодушний; благородний, шляхетний, щедрий, багатий (на щось), ~ harvest — багатий урожай, великий (про розмір); чималий, значний (про суму грошей), ~ of size — великого розміру, a ~ amount — велика кількість, ~ allowance — значна сума кишенькових грошей, родючий (про землю), інтенсивний
Детальний опис
- giving or willing to give freely; given freely
- The gallery was named after its most generous benefactor.
- a generous donation/gift/offer
- generous with something You've been incredibly generous with your time.
- generous to somebody He was generous to his friends and family.
- generous in something She was generous in her praise for her co-stars.
- generous in doing something They were very generous in giving help
- it is generous of somebody Thank you for your donation. It was very generous of you.
- it is generous of somebody to do something It was extremely generous of him to offer to pay for us both.
- more than is necessary; large synonym lavish
- a generous helping of meat
- The car has a generous amount of space.
- The review panel criticized the payments as overly generous.
- kind in the way you treat people; willing to see what is good about somebody/something
- a generous mind
- He wrote a very generous assessment of my work.
- Her generous spirit shone through in everything she did.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: via Old French from Latin generosus ‘noble, magnanimous’, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’. The original sense was ‘of noble birth’, hence ‘characteristic of noble birth, courageous, magnanimous, not mean’ (a sense already present in Latin).