munificent
/mjuˈnɪfɪsn̩t/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Munificent as he was in his own disposition in the conferring of favours, his acceptance, under the circumstances we have described, of the fortune bestowed by Robert, he found upon reasoning with himself to be perfectly consistent with the most scrupulous principles of uprightness and probity:[…]"
- "Tellson's Bank […] was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate."
- "[M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S."
- "An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard."
- "On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built."
- "It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift."
Etymology
Back-formation from munificence, from Latin mūnificentia.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mūnificentia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mjuˈnɪfɪsn̩t/
- British English: /mjuˈnɪfɪsn̩t/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Finance.
Inflected Forms
more munificent (comparative)
most munificent (superlative)