| a. | 1. | |
| 1. | Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. | |
| 2. | Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous. | |
| 3. | Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; | |
| 4. | Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; | |
| 5. | Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; |
| Adj. | 1. | generous - willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation" Antonyms: stingy, ungenerous - not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| 2. | generous - not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people" Antonyms: meanspirited, ungenerous - lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" | |
| 3. | generous - more than adequate; "a generous portion" |
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