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LUXURIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
Example:
a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
Synonyms:
epicurean; luxuriant; luxurious; sybaritic; voluptuary; voluptuous
Classified under:
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Derivation:
luxuriousness (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
Example:
these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous
Synonyms:
deluxe; gilded; grand; lush; luxurious; opulent; princely; sumptuous
Classified under:
Similar:
rich (suggestive of or characterized by great expense)
Derivation:
luxuriousness (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)
luxury (something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity)
luxury (the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive)
luxury (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)
Context examples:
A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
On the other hand, it was furnished with the neatness and taste which belonged to his character, so that his most luxurious friends found something in the tiny rooms which made them discontented with their own sumptuous mansions.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not know a more luxurious state, sir, than sitting at one's ease to be entertained a whole evening by two such young women; sometimes with music and sometimes with conversation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The full moon of November 12 (plus or minus four days) might also find you at a magnificent party, where no expense will be spared to treat guests to a luxurious evening.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It will do me good, for since you came I have been altogether lazy and luxurious.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Two gentlemen were lounging in a very easy fashion upon luxurious fauteuils at the further end of the room and a third stood between them, his thick, well-formed legs somewhat apart and his hands clasped behind him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the meantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease, wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious for my stern career.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
