different between ample vs lush

English

Etymology

From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (“large”), probably for ambiplus (“full on both sides”), the last syllable akin to Latin plenus (“full”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æm.p?l/
• Rhymes: -æmp?l

Adjective

ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)

1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.

2. Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty

3. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

Synonyms

• full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent
• See also Thesaurus:ample
• (large): See also Thesaurus:large
• (fully sufficient): See also Thesaurus:abundant

Related terms

Translations

References

• ample in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ample in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Maple, Palme, maple, pelma

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin amplus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?am.pl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?am.ple/

Adjective

ample (feminine ampla, masculine and feminine plural amples)

1. wide
2. ample, plentiful

Derived terms

• amplada
• amplament
• amplària

Related terms

• ampliar

Further reading

• “ample” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ample” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ample” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ample” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin amplus (“large”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pl/

Adjective

ample (plural amples)

1. plentiful, abundant, copious, profuse, ample
2. (of clothes) loose, baggy

Further reading

• “ample” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

ampl? (comparative amplius, superlative amplissim?)

1. amply, largely

Etymology 2

Adjective

ample

1. vocative masculine singular of amplus

References

• ample in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ample in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Alternative forms

• emple

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ample, from Old French ample, from Latin amplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?amp?l/, /??mp?l/

Adjective

ample

1. (Late Middle English) ample, copious, profuse

Related terms

• amplifiyen

Descendants

• English: ample
• Scots: ample

References

• “ample, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-04.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysc, lesc (“slack; limp”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German erleswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse l?skr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Adjective

lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

1. Juicy, succulent.

   Synonyms: sapful, sappy
2. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
3. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
4. (of food) Savoury, delicious.

5. (miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
6. (Britain, slang) Beautiful, sexy.

7. (Britain, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

8. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

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Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.

Noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

1. (slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

   Synonyms: souse, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

2. (slang) intoxicating liquor

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

   • 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley

     If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it.

3. (Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.

   Synonyms: egotist, narcissist

Translations

Verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Albanian

Etymology

Check lushë.

Noun

lush m

1. male dog
2. hooligan

Related terms

• lushë