Expending or bestowing with profusion; profuse; prodigal: as, to be lavish of expense, of praise, or of blood.Unrestrained; wild.Expended or bestowed with prodigality or in profuseness; existing in or characterized by profusion; superabundant.Rank, as grass, etc.Synonyms and Profuse, etc. See extravagant.To expend or bestow with profusion; give or layout prodigally: as, to lavish encomiums on a person; to lavish money on a friend, or for gratification.n. Waste; squandering.