luxurious
[luhg-zhoo r-ee-uh s, luhk-shoo r-]
- characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- given to or loving luxury; wanting or requiring what is choice, expensive, or the like: a person with luxurious tastes.
- given to pleasure, especially of the senses; voluptuous.
- present or occurring in great abundance, rich profusion, etc.; opulent: a luxurious harvest; music of luxurious beauty.
- excessively ornate; overelaborate: luxurious prose.
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Origin of luxurious
Synonyms
See more synonyms for luxurious on Thesaurus.com1. rich, sumptuous. 2. epicurean. 3. sensual, self-indulgent.
Antonyms
1. squalid.
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Examples from the Web for luxurious
Contemporary Examples
One of its few concessions to the luxurious standards of the neighbors is a long, winding road.
But Lear insists his longer, more detailed journeys are more thorough, experience-rich, and luxurious.
But with unlimited access to the luxurious sandwiches, piled high with glistening meat, a buttery apocalypse of gluttony unfolded.
But cozy coats were also plentiful and added soft, luxurious warmth.
Art Takes the Runway at Burberry Prorsum Fall/Winter 2014 London Fashion WeekLiza Foreman
February 17, 2014
Iris Van Herpen and Delphine Manivet each have a technical mastery that falls within the luxurious customs of haute couture.
Historical Examples
There was a large bedroom and bath, and a luxurious study or lounging room.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
So Roland lived on week after week in luxurious thoughtlessness.
A Singer from the SeaAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Observe, that Darius was not the son of a king, and had not received a luxurious education.
LawsPlato
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Athenaeus also mentions one Apion who wrote a book on luxurious living.
luxurious
- characterized by luxury
- enjoying or devoted to luxury
- an archaic word for lecherous
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Word Origin
C14: via Old French from Latin luxuriōsus excessive
usage
Luxurious is sometimes wrongly used where luxuriant is meant: he had a luxuriant (not luxurious) moustache; the walls were covered with a luxuriant growth of wisteria
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Word Origin and History for luxurious
adj.
c.1300, "lascivious, lecherous, unchaste," from Old French luxurios "lustful, lascivious" (Modern French luxurieux), from Latin luxuriosus, from luxuria (see luxury). Meaning "given to luxury, voluptuous" (of persons) is from c.1600. Of things, meaning "characterized by luxury" is attested from c.1650. Related: Luxuriously; luxuriousness.
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