luxuriate
Americanverb (used without object)
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luxuriates,
present (3rd person singular)
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luxuriated,
past participle, past
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luxuriating
present participle
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to enjoy oneself without stint; revel.
to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
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to grow fully or abundantly; thrive.
The plants luxuriated in the new soil.
verb
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(foll by in) to take voluptuous pleasure; revel
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to flourish extensively or profusely
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to live in a sumptuous way
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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luxuriatesimple
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luxuriatessimple
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have luxuriatedperfect
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has luxuriatedperfect
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am luxuriatingprogressive
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are luxuriatingprogressive
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is luxuriatingprogressive
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have been luxuriatingperfect progressive
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has been luxuriatingperfect progressive
Past
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luxuriatedsimple
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had luxuriatedperfect
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was luxuriatingprogressive
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were luxuriatingprogressive
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had been luxuriatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of luxuriate
1615–25; < Latin luxuriātus, past participle of luxuriāre. See luxuriant, -ate 1
Explanation
To luxuriate is to enjoy yourself extravagantly or to an extreme degree. Luxuriate can also mean to thrive, like a plant that grows wildly. A luxury is something expensive and unnecessary, like eating at a fancy restaurant. To luxuriate is to enjoy yourself in a similar way, not necessarily by spending a lot, but by enjoying something to the fullest. Lying in the sun for hours is luxuriating. Reading in the bookstore for hours is luxuriating. Also, luxuriating is a type of prosperous growth. A banana tree that yields a lot of bananas is luxuriating: it's thriving and growing.
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Example Sentences
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There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
Yet Mike and Claire embrace the cheese, luxuriate in it, like toddlers spinning around deliriously in their first snowfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
It’s about creating spaces where LGBTQ+ people can be visible but also feel safe to be in community, a moment to live without fear and luxuriate in collective joy.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025
The camera moves just so, never racing or crawling, which allows you to luxuriate in the details that fill in the picture and deepen the realism.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Even as I luxuriate in the future this way, rolling anticipation around in my mouth, I think of something else.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Before Kercher’s murder corkscrews their story, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” luxuriates in the postcard-perfect view from the apartment Amanda shared with Meredith and two Italian women.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
And Strong, an enthusiastic cook, luxuriates in the bounty of fruits and vegetables growing around their home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
While many Hallmark movies are largely locked in, location wise, to Toronto and the rest of Ontario, “A Perfect Pairing” fairly luxuriates in Australia’s vineyard beauty.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
A pastiche of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Edith Wharton’s fiction, the story luxuriates in the tragic fate of America’s wealthiest man, Benjamin Rask.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
The box luxuriates in this defile, springing in tree-like proportions from every ledge.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Conductor Roberto Kalb luxuriated in the rich orchestration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
He said she was an "emotional parasite" who fed off the couple's despair and "luxuriated" in offering them false hope.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Across from me, George Felix luxuriated in the vibes.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025
Gustavo Dudamel luxuriated in his own warmly sympathetic recording of it with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Between that, studying for her classes, and the unusually long, wet winter, she had grown wan and pale and sometimes depressed, so she luxuriated in the fresh air and bright sunlight on the ferry.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
Far from luxuriating in a serene and pristine writing environment, Ms. Lewin reveals, Woolf worked amid “old nibs, bits of string, used matches, rusty paper-clips, crumpled envelopes, broken cigarette-holders, etc.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Like everyone else at Crooked Con, Piker is luxuriating in what he thinks is a vibe shift.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
Rather than participants luxuriating in newfound free time, a Stockton, California pilot found that full-time employment actually rose among those receiving guaranteed income, while their financial, physical and emotional health also improved.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich’aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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