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luxurious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /-lʌkˈʃɝ-/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /lʌkˈʃʉ-/ (Scotland)
• /lʊkˈʃʊə-/ (Northern-England)
• /-lʌkˈsjʊə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lʌkˈʃʊə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lʊɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/ (Northern-England)
• /lʌɡˈʒʊɹi.əs/ (General-American)
• /-lʌkˈʃoː-/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /lʌɡˈzjʊə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /-lʌɡˈʒoː-/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /-lʌɡˈʒɝ-/ (General-American)
• /-lʌkˈʃʊɹ-/ (General-American)
• /lʌɡˈʒʉɾe.əs/ (Scotland)
• /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lʌɡˈʒɵːɹɪjəs/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /-lʌkˈʃɵː-/ (British, Southern, Standard)

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.

Meanings

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.
   • Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft 2011, Mayer Hawthorne, “The Walk”, in How Do You Do:
   • 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. 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
   • Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel. 1856, George P. Marsh, The Camel: His Organization Habits and Uses Considered with Reference to His Introduction into the United States, pages 115-116:
   • 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 […] 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Forms

Antonyms

poor · basic · abstemious · ascetic · impoverished

Deriveds

luxuriosity · superluxurious · luxurity · unluxurious · luxuriousness · ultraluxurious · semiluxurious · overluxurious · deluxurious

Relateds

luxuriate · luxury · luxuriously · luxuriant

Synonyms

sensualistic · sinful · naughty · sybaritic · lotus-eating · hedonic · decadent · voluptuary · self-indulgent · opulent · epicureous · luxurious · plush · luxury · deluxe · epicurean · epicureal · decadent · sybaritical · voluptuarian · epicurish · hedonistic · sybarite · sumptuous · Babylonian · intemperate · epicurean

Translations (40)

ko 호화 (very fine and comfortable) · ro luxos (very fine and comfortable) · la lautus (very fine and comfortable) · es lujoso (very fine and comfortable) · da luksuriøs (very fine and comfortable) · de luxuriös (very fine and comfortable) · ru роско́шный (very fine and comfortable) · eo luksa (very fine and comfortable) · tr lüks (very fine and comfortable) · ca luxuriós (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · ca luxós (very fine and comfortable) · pl luksusowy (very fine and comfortable) · fi loistelias (very fine and comfortable) · ja 豪華 (very fine and comfortable) · la opiparus (very fine and comfortable) · ar فَخْم (very fine and comfortable) · gl fastoso (very fine and comfortable) · it lussurioso (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · pt luxuoso (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · sv lyxig (very fine and comfortable) · ga macnasach (very fine and comfortable) · da luksuøs (very fine and comfortable) · sv luxuös (very fine and comfortable) · nl luxueus (very fine and comfortable) · nl luxueus (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · fr luxueux (very fine and comfortable) · cmn 豪華 /豪华 (very fine and comfortable) · gl luxurioso (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · pt luxuoso (very fine and comfortable) · gl luxoso (very fine and comfortable) · fr de luxe (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · bg разкошен (very fine and comfortable) · gd sòghail (very fine and comfortable) · vi sang trọng (very fine and comfortable) · nb luksuriøs (very fine and comfortable) · nn luksuriøs (very fine and comfortable) · it lussuoso (very fine and comfortable) · ro luxurios (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · de luxuriös (enjoying pleasures of luxury) · fi ylellinen (very fine and comfortable)