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Luxurious

//lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Very fine in quality and comfortable.

    "a luxurious hotel suite"

  2. 2
    Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury. dated

    "Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel."

Adjective
  1. 1
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses wordnet
  2. 2
    ostentatiously rich and superior in quality wordnet

Etymology

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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