luxurious
Meaning
- Very fine in quality and comfortable.
- (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
Opposite of
basic, impoverished, poor, ascetic, abstemious
Synonyms
lucullan
elegrant
eating dainties
Translations
lussuoso
luxueus
lujoso
luxueux
luxuriös
luxuoso
πολυτελής
lüksFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/
Etymology
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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