luxurious

luxurious

English

Etymology

From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin luxuriosus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/, /lʌɡˈzjʊə.ɹɪəs/, /lʌkˈsjʊə.ɹɪəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊɹ.i.əs/, /lʌkˈʃʊɹ.i.əs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

luxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

   a luxurious hotel suite

2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury.
   • 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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 […]

Synonyms

• epicurean

Antonyms

• impoverished
• abstemious

Related terms

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxuriously
• luxury

Translations

being very fine and comfortable

Arabic: فَخْم‎ (faḵm) Bulgarian: разкошен (bg) (razkošen) Catalan: luxós Chinese: Mandarin: 豪華／豪华 (zh) (háohuá) Danish: luksuøs, luksuriøs Dutch: luxueus (nl) Esperanto: luksa French: luxueux (fr) Galician: luxoso German: luxuriös (de) Italian: lussuoso (it) Japanese: 豪華 (ja) (ごうか, gōka) Korean: 호화(豪華) (hohwa) Latin: lautus, opiparus Norwegian: Bokmål: luksuriøs Nynorsk: luksuriøs Polish: luksusowy (pl) Portuguese: luxuoso (pt) Russian: роско́шный (ru) (roskóšnyj) Scottish Gaelic: sòghail Spanish: lujoso (es) Swedish: luxuös (sv), lyxig (sv) Turkish: lüks (tr) Vietnamese: sang trọng (vi)

enjoying pleasures of luxury

Catalan: luxuriós (ca) Dutch: luxueus (nl) French: de luxe Galician: luxurioso German: luxuriös (de) Italian: lussurioso (it) Portuguese: luxuoso (pt) Romanian: luxurios (ro)

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Telugu: (please verify) విలాసవంతమైన (vilāsavantamaina) (vilaasavamtamaina)

See also

• sumptuous

Further reading

• luxurious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• luxurious at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• luxsorius, luxorious, luxoryows, luxuryouse, luxuriouse

Etymology

From Old French luxurios, from Latin luxuriosus; equivalent to luxurie +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lukˈsjuːriˌuːs/, /lukˈsjuːrius/

Adjective

luxurious

1. Lusty, lascivious; sexually transgressive.
2. Shocking; surprising in a negative way.

Descendants

• English: luxurious

References

• “luxūriǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-20.