ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsLlargesse
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largesse
Meaning: generosity in giving money or gifts
largesse in a sentence
How largesse is used in real sentences:
The hospital survived its first difficult years through the largesse of local donors.
Her largesse funded scholarships for dozens of students who could not afford tuition.
“The chairman's celebrated largesse to canal workers also proved selective: coats and holiday coins went chiefly to men willing to praise him.”
— from the passage The Season of Reckoning
Synonyms for largesse
Other words for largesse — generosity, munificence and liberality — carry the same meaning.
- generosity
- munificence
- liberality
Antonyms of largesse
Words that mean the opposite of largesse:
- stinginess
- miserliness
- parsimony
Where it comes from
From Old French largesse, meaning 'generosity.'
Memory hook
LARGESSE begins like LARGE: largesse means giving gifts in large measure.