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Lavish vs. Ravish — What's the Difference?

Lavish vs. Ravish — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Lavish and Ravish

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Lavish

Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion
A lavish buffet.

Ravish

Ravish may refer to

Lavish

Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting
The critics were lavish with their praise.

Ravish

Seize and carry off (someone) by force
There is no assurance that her infant child will not be ravished from her breast

Lavish

To give or bestow in abundance; shower
Lavished attention on his customers.
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Ravish

Fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture
Ravished by a sunny afternoon, she had agreed without even thinking

Lavish

To give something in abundance to
"The aides began lavishing him with kindnesses" (Kay Marie Porterfield).

Ravish

To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.

Lavish

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
Lavish of money;
Lavish of praise

Ravish

To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture
Moviegoers who were ravished with delight.

Lavish

Superabundant; excessive.
Lavish spirits
Lavish meal

Ravish

(Archaic) To seize and carry away by force.

Lavish

(obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.

Ravish

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

Lavish

(transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.
They lavished money on the dinner.

Ravish

To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

Lavish

(transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
They lavished him with praise.

Ravish

To rape.

Lavish

(obsolete) Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.

Ravish

(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.

Lavish

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Ravish

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chinWill quicken, and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.

Lavish

Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
Let her have needful, but not lavish, means.

Ravish

To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
Thou hast ravished my heart.

Lavish

To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Ravish

To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

Lavish

Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
He was showered with praise

Ravish

Force (someone) to have sex against their will;
The woman was raped on her way home at night

Lavish

Very generous;
Distributed gifts with a lavish hand
The critics were lavish in their praise
A munificent gift
His father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
Prodigal praise
Unsparing generosity
His unstinted devotion
Called for unstinting aid to Britain

Ravish

Hold spellbound

Lavish

Characterized by extravagance and profusion;
A lavish buffet
A lucullan feast

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