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adjective

Very fine in quality and comfortable.

“a luxurious hotel suite”

Meanings

adjectiveluxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

comparative more luxurious · superlative most luxurious

  1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

    a luxurious hotel suite

    2 more examples

    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

    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

    Synonyms: deluxe, opulent, plush, sumptuous, luxury · Antonyms: basic, impoverished, poor

  2. datedEnjoying 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
    1 more example

    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)

    Synonyms: decadent, epicurean, Babylonian, decadent, epicureal, epicurean, epicureous, epicurish · Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveVery fine in quality and comfortable.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivedisplaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

adjectiveostentatiously rich and superior in quality

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinlū̆xuriōsus“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”
  2. Old Frenchluxurios
  3. Middle Englishluxurious
  4. Englishluxurious

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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Translations

Arabic فَخْم
  • فَخْم (faḵm)very fine and comfortable
Bulgarian разкошен
  • разкошен (razkošen)very fine and comfortable
Catalan luxós, luxuriós
  • luxósvery fine and comfortable
  • luxuriósenjoying pleasures of luxury
Chinese Mandarin 豪華 /豪华
  • 豪華 /豪华 (háohuá)very fine and comfortable
Danish luksuøs, luksuriøs
  • luksuøsvery fine and comfortable
  • luksuriøsvery fine and comfortable
Dutch luxueus, luxueus
  • luxueusvery fine and comfortable
  • luxueusenjoying pleasures of luxury
Esperanto luksa
  • luksavery fine and comfortable
Finnish ylellinen, loistelias
  • ylellinenvery fine and comfortable
  • loisteliasvery fine and comfortable
French luxueux, de luxe
  • luxueuxvery fine and comfortable
  • de luxeenjoying pleasures of luxury
German luxuriös, luxuriös
  • luxuriösvery fine and comfortable
  • luxuriösenjoying pleasures of luxury
Irish macnasach
  • macnasachvery fine and comfortable
Italian lussuoso, lussurioso
  • lussuosovery fine and comfortable
  • lussuriosoenjoying pleasures of luxury
Japanese 豪華
  • 豪華 (gōka)very fine and comfortable
Korean 호화
  • 호화 (hohwa)very fine and comfortable
Latin lautus, opiparus
  • lautusvery fine and comfortable
  • opiparusvery fine and comfortable
Norwegian Bokmål luksuriøs
  • luksuriøsvery fine and comfortable
Polish luksusowy
  • luksusowyvery fine and comfortable
Portuguese luxuoso, luxuoso
  • luxuosovery fine and comfortable
  • luxuosoenjoying pleasures of luxury
Romanian luxos, luxurios
  • luxosvery fine and comfortable
  • luxuriosenjoying pleasures of luxury
Russian роско́шный
  • роско́шный (roskóšnyj)very fine and comfortable
Scottish Gaelic sòghail
  • sòghailvery fine and comfortable
Spanish lujoso
  • lujosovery fine and comfortable
Swedish luxuös, lyxig
  • luxuösvery fine and comfortable
  • lyxigvery fine and comfortable
Turkish lüks
  • lüksvery fine and comfortable
Vietnamese sang trọng
  • sang trọngvery fine and comfortable
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