luxurious

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16
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9
Pronunciation
/lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/
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/lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/ · /lʌɡˈzjʊə.ɹɪəs/ · /lʌkˈsjʊə.ɹɪəs/ · /lʌɡˈʒʊɹ.i.əs/ · /lʌkˈʃʊɹ.i.əs/ · /lʌɡˈʒɝ.i.əs/ · /lʌkˈʃɝ.i.əs/

Definition of luxurious

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.
    “a luxurious hotel suite”
    “With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.”
    “Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft”
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adj

  1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.
    “a luxurious hotel suite”
    “With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.”
    “Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft”
  2. (dated)Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
    “Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel.”
    “When one looks at the elegantly dressed people round the gaming table, who perhaps laugh at everything which impresses other people with awe, who scoff at the Church and the Bible, one could scarcely think it possible that these enlightened, pleasure-loving, luxurious men of the world, carry on in secret, cabalistic nonsense, turning over cards, fortune telling, studying the significance of signs and dreams […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin lū̆xuriōsus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from lū̆xuria (“rankness, luxury”), from lū̆xus (“extravagance, luxury”). By surface analysis, luxury + -ous.

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