magnanimous
C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Generous and forgiving, especially toward a rival.
In victory she was magnanimous, praising her opponent.
Business adjective
Generous or forgiving, especially towards a weaker party or former rival.
Having won the key point, she was magnanimous about the minor concessions that followed.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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