profuse

pruh-FYOOSadj

Meaning pouring out in great amounts

Memory hook pro-FUSE: FUS = POUR. Dev knocks over the juice, and apologies pour out of him: “Sorry! So sorry! I’m so, so sorry!” His apologies are profuse.

The roses grew in profuse clusters, spilling over the fence onto the sidewalk.

In context Embarrassed that he had forgotten her birthday, Dev was profuse in his apologies; he said sorry a dozen times and baked her a cake the next morning.

Similar abundant, lavish, plentiful, copious

Opposite scant, meager, sparse

From Latin profusus, “poured out,” from profundere: pro (forth) + fundere (to pour).

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