munificent

myoo-NIF-ih-suntadj

Meaning extremely generous in giving

Memory hook MOON-IF-icent: he’d give you the MOON. Uncle Omar would give you the moon if he could; he has already paid for the whole team’s trip. He is munificent.

Thanks to a munificent gift from a former student, the school built a new music hall.

In context Most guests brought a small present, but Aunt Rosa was munificent: she paid for the whole wedding dinner and the band as well.

Similar generous, bountiful, openhanded, big-hearted

Opposite stingy, parsimonious, miserly

From Latin munificus, “generous”: munus (gift) + -ficus (making).

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