sumptuous

comparative more sumptuous · superlative most sumptuous

1. Extremely costly; suggesting great expense.
2. Magnificent, luxurious, or splendid.

   sumptuous feast

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   sumptuous surroundings

   sumptuous interior

   They dined in a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with gold.

   The fabric has a sumptuous texture.

   Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loathe his vegetable meal;

   1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

   Synonyms: lavish