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Sybaritic

Sometimes Syb·a·rit·i·cal

[sib-uh-rit-ik]

adjective

  1. (usually lowercase),  pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure.

    to wallow in sybaritic splendor.

  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of Sybaris or its inhabitants.



Sybaritic

/ ˌsɪbəˈrɪtɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the ancient Greek colony of Sybaris or its inhabitants

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Other Word Forms

  • Sybaritically adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sybaritic1

< Latin Sybarīticus < Greek Sybarītikós, equivalent to Sybarī́t ( ēs ) Sybarite + -ikos -ic
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He’s heir to Trump’s sybaritic nihilism, high-kitsch absurdity and impregnable brazenness.

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Before long, however, a seriously frightened Westen rushes to consult a sybaritic, Magus-like acquaintance named Jaime Donaldus Byers, who — in my favorite chapters of the novel — relates the history of an occultist named Thibault de Castries, author of “Megapolisomancy.”

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He was a voice of his generation’s most cherished ideals and its most pungent caricature, the man who wrote the willowy folk classic “Guinnevere” and a sybaritic braggart whose excesses required two memoirs to fully digest.

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Say this much for Damien Chazelle: He shows his audience exactly what he’s giving them within the first few minutes of “Babylon,” his bruised, black-eyed valentine to Hollywood’s sybaritic heyday.

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San Francisco has the natural harbor, but we have the beaches, those soft, wide, sybaritic beaches.

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