Opulent
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 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."
- 1 ostentatiously rich and superior in quality wordnet
Example
More examples"After losing too much bodily fluid, Tom began to hallucinate and believe he was in the opulent interior of the Titanic."
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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