luxuriate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
Definition of luxuriate
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(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.”
- (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).
Words you can make from luxuriate
172 playable · top: LUXATE (13 pts)
Best play luxate 13 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
40 words- AXILE 12 pts
- AXITE 12 pts
- EXALT 12 pts
- EXTRA 12 pts
- EXULT 12 pts
- IXTLE 12 pts
- LATEX 12 pts
- LAXER 12 pts
- LUREX 12 pts
- LUXER 12 pts
- RELAX 12 pts
- RETAX 12 pts
- TAXER 12 pts
- ALERT 5 pts
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- ARIEL 5 pts
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- ULTRA 5 pts
- URAEI 5 pts
- URATE 5 pts
- UREAL 5 pts
- URIAL 5 pts
- UTERI 5 pts
- UTILE 5 pts
4-letter words
55 words- AXEL 11 pts
- AXIL 11 pts
- AXLE 11 pts
- EAUX 11 pts
- EXIT 11 pts
- ILEX 11 pts
- LUXE 11 pts
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3-letter words
49 words- AXE 10 pts
- LAX 10 pts
- LEX 10 pts
- LUX 10 pts
- RAX 10 pts
- REX 10 pts
- TAX 10 pts
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- TUX 10 pts
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- ULU 3 pts
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- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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