Luxurious
//lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs// adj
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Very fine in quality and comfortable.
"a luxurious hotel suite"
- 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 displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses wordnet
- 2 ostentatiously rich and superior in quality wordnet
Example
More examples"Brian's girlfriend often begs him to take her to luxurious restaurants."
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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