luxurious

Signification (Anglais)

  1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.
  2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.

Opposé de
basic, impoverished, poor, ascetic, abstemious
Fréquence

C2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin lū̆xuriōsus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from lū̆xuria (“rankness, luxury”), from lū̆xus (“extravagance, luxury”). By surface analysis, luxury + -ous.

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