luxuriate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/lʌɡˈʒʊəɹ.i.eɪt/

Definition of luxuriate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
    “Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.”
    “He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.”
    “But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.”
    “But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
    “Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.”
    “He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.”
    “But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.”
    “But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.”
  2. (intransitive)To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

First attested in 1621; borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, perfect passive participle of lūxuriō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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