luxuriant
Americanadjective
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rich and abundant; lush
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very elaborate or ornate
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extremely productive or fertile
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of luxuriant
1530–40; < Latin luxuriant- (stem of luxuriāns ), present participle of luxuriāre to be rank or immoderate. See luxury, -ant
Explanation
You can use the adjective luxuriant to describe something really luxurious or full and lush. If you walk through a dense forest after it rains, it's really luxuriant with green plants overgrowing the paths. Natural, growing things are luxuriant when they're fertile and full of life. People and places that show a fullness of life and wealth are also luxuriant. If you enter a room full of deep, plush couches and expensive decorations you're in a luxuriant space. And anything really enjoyable to the senses — whether costly or not — can be luxuriant, like a really rich and creamy piece of warm vanilla cake with a large hot chocolate: that's luxuriant.
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Example Sentences
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Gabriela Lena Frank’s work about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is full of luxuriant color—visual and musical—in the company’s new production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
These consisted of a Rameau/Handel program, studies in luxuriant sonorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
In Sinaloa, Mexico, where luxuriant corn fields carpet the plains between the Sierra Madre mountains and the Gulf of California, short corn is already having an impact.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
A Neolithic people, the proto-Bantu were farmers who subsisted by cultivating pearl millet and yams and extracting oil from the abundant palm and bush candle trees of the region’s luxuriant rainforests.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
What maharaja’s son had such vast, luxuriant grounds to play about?
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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