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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1846 generous, charitable • bigheartedly adverb • bigheartedness noun

Moby Thesaurus

almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, chivalrous, eleemosynary, elevated, exalted, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, giving, gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, humanitarian, idealistic, knightly, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, munificent, noble, noble-minded, open, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic, princely, profuse, stintless, sublime, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist