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Opulent

//ˈɒpjʊlənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.

    "He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea."

  2. 2
    Rich, sumptuous and extravagant.

    "The outdoor setting around the lily ponds in the twin courtyards of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is opulent with maples in radiant hues, and a veritable forest of conifers and bamboo with underplantings like bush-clover, silver grass and balloon flowers from the “seven flowers of autumn” cited in early Japanese poems."

Adjective
  1. 1
    ostentatiously rich and superior in quality wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opulēns, opulentus, from ops (“wealth, power, resources”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃op- (“to work; produce in abundance”).

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