Generous

Adjective

 * 1)  Of noble birth.
 * 2) Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
 * Thank you for your generous words.
 * 1) Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
 * She's been extremely generous with her winnings.
 * 1) Large, more than ample, copious.

Adverbs for Generous
sincerely; quixotically; fantastically; ostentatiously; publicly; extremely; altruistically; charitably; benevolently; instinctively; distinctly; spontaneously; lavishly; extravagantly; habitually; truly; genuinely; amazingly; notably; essentially; magnificently; splendidly; essentially; unselfishly.

Synonyms for Generous
noble, beneficent, liberal, bountiful, honorable, charitable, free, open-handed, munificent, open-hearted, high-minded, magnanimous, chivalrous, unselfish, whole-hearted, forgiving.

Antonyms for Generous
selfish, miserly, closefisted, parsimonious, illiberal, sparing, penurious, stingy, uncharitable, avaricious, mean, sordid, greedy, grasping, covetous, petty, rapacious.

Related terms

 * generosity

Thesaurus
abounding, abundant, accommodating, affable, affluent, agreeable, all-sufficing, almsgiving, altruistic, amiable, ample, aplenty, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, big, bighearted, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, bursting, bursting out, capacious, charitable, chivalrous, complaisant, compliant, comprehensive, conciliatory, considerate, copious, cordial, countless, creative, decent, diffuse, disinterested, effuse, eleemosynary, elevated, epidemic, exalted, exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, fair, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, free, freehanded, freehearted, friendly, fructiferous, fruitful, full, galore, genial, giving, good, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hearty, helpful, heroic, high, high-minded, honest, hospitable, humane, humanitarian, idealistic, in plenty, in quantity, indulgent, inexhaustible, kind, kindhearted, kindly, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, lenient, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, many, maximal, much, multitudinous, munificent, neighborly, noble, noble-minded, numerous, obliging, open, open-handed, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overflowing, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, permissive, philanthropic, placable, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, receptive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, spacious, sparing, stintless, sublime, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thoughtful, thriving, tolerant, tolerating, uberous, ungrudging, unprejudiced, unresentful, unrevengeful, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, voluminous, warm, warmhearted, wealthy, welcoming, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, willing

Etymology
From genereux:, and its source,  generosus:, from genus:.

Translations

 * Arabic: كريم
 * Basque: eskuzabal, emankor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,


 * Greek: (gennaiódoros)
 * Irish: mórchroíoch
 * Italian: generoso
 * Japanese: 気の大きい
 * Polish: hojny, szczodry
 * Romanian: generos
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: cömert


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: grootmoedig
 * French: ,
 * Irish: mórchroíoch


 * Italian: magnanimo
 * Romanian: generos, generoasă
 * Russian: ,


 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * German: ,


 * Greek: (gerós)
 * Italian: abbondante
 * Russian:


 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: edelboortig, nobel, hooggeboren


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: благородный (blagoródnyj), родовитый (rodovítyj)


 * : velikodušan
 * : 慷慨的 (kāngkǎide)
 * : נדיב
 * : generoso, generosa generosi , generose
 * : 気前のいい (kimaenoii), 寛大な (kandaina)


 * : 관대한 (gwandaehan)
 * : generosus, liberalis
 * : generoso
 * Cyrillic: великодушан
 * Roman: velikodušan
 * : generoso
 * : generoso