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"
A munificent person is very generous. one of the country's most munificent artistic benefactors. a munificent donation. very generous (munificence (1500-1600), from munificentia, from munificus , from munus; MUNICIPAL)