Luxurious

Definition: Luxurious

Luxurious

Adjective

1. Furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness".

2. Rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "luxurious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Luxurious \Lux*u"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression luxuriosus: compare to the French expression luxurieux. See Luxury.]. (references)

Synonyms: Luxurious

Intemperance

Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.

Pain

Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual.

Physical Pleasure

Adjective: enjoying. Verb: luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease.

Crosswords: Luxurious

It's a must I stay luxurious (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Luxurious Lou (1915)

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Books

• 50 Luxurious English Tudor Homes (reference)

• Elegant Linens: 26 Projects for Creating Your Own Luxurious Linens (reference)

• Luxurious Sexualities: Effeminacy, Consumption, and the Body Politic in (reference)

• Modest Mansions: Design Ideas for Luxurious Living in Less Space (reference)

• Sewing Luxurious Pillows: Artistic Designs for Home Decor (Great Sewing Projects Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Luxurious Snoozer Full Body Pillow (reference)

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Entrance foyer, first floor, from south. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, June 1984. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARK,26-HOSP,1-D-17) Praised by its original owner as "the most practical, complete, and luxurious bathhouse in the world," the Fordyce Bathhouse in Hot Springs stands today as a reminder of the international health-spa craze of the first half of the twentieth century. People from all over the world flocked to the Fordyce and the other bathhouses on "Bathhouse Row" in Hot Springs in the hope that the many natural springs in the area would help cure their illnesses. Visitors at the Fordyce bought their bath tickets in this foyer before proceeding to the dressing rooms and then to the baths. Today, the Fordyce Bathhouse is the Visitor Center at Hot Springs National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

Luxurious golf resorts. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this

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Business

Most houses have ceramic tile floors, some may use parquet or even marble floors for the luxurious building apartments that are becoming very popular among the upper-class in Santo Domingo. (references)

The disadvantage is that U.S. jeep type cars are not very luxurious and Greek car buyers who end up paying a lot of money for the vehicle due to its taxes are disappointed with their interiors which fall short compared to the Range Rovers or the new Mercedes four wheel drive. (references)

Luxurious foreign cars were considered as one of the most tangible attributes, and the so-called "new Uzbeks" began hitting the roads in new luxurious European, American and Japanese cars. Since many import regulations were not precisely formulated at that point, there were even cases of imports of European left hand drive cars, despite the fact the country is a right hand drive society. (references)

Travel

Kuwait

There are numerous luxurious residential complexes, villas, and apartments. (references)

Oman

The major hotels patronized by western business visitors and tourists in the Muscat area are: the Hyatt (a five-star beach front property, close to the U.S. Embassy, and with luxurious rooms and excellent restaurants), the Al Bustan Palace Hotel (five star, on the beach, a "must see" site), Muscat Intercontinental (convenient to most ministries and on the beach); Sheraton (overlooking the Ruwi central business district, with complete business center facilities); Muscat Holiday Inn and the Radisson (particularly convenient to the Ministries and growing Al Khuwair business area); Crown Plaza Hotel (possessing a seafront location and a variety of good restaurants); the Seeb (airport) and Ruwi Novotels, and the renovated Mercure-Al Falaj in Ruwi. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

To be luxurious

Expression using "luxurious": luxurious living. Additional references.

Ending with "luxurious": ultra-luxurious.

Afrikaans

luukse (de luxe, deluxe, lux, luxury, splendour). (various references)

Albanian

luksoz (baronial, de luxe, exclusive, fancy, lavish, palatial, plushy, rank, recherche, refined, rich, Swan, swanky, swell), madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, lordly, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, stately, sublime, superb). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lordly, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ‏فاخر (brag, deluxe, excellent, exquisite, fancy, fine, glory, splendid, superior), ‏كمالي (luxury), ‏مولع بالترف, ‏مترف (deluxe, luxuriant, rich, splendid, sumptuous, superb, sybaritic), ‏وفير, ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разточителен (extravagant, improvident, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, sumptuous, superfluous, thriftless, uneconomic, unsparing, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful), разкошен (costly, gorgeous, imperial, magnificent, opulent, palatial, princely, profuse, royal, splendiferous, sumptuous, superb, voluptuous), с вкус към разкоша, с вкус към лукса, който обича да си угажда, натруфен (dressy, elaborate, gingerbread, ornate, orotund, tacky, tawdry, twopence colored, twopence coloured), луксозен (de luxe, fancy, luxury, plush, plushy, posh, ritzy, slapping), претупан. (various references)

Chinese 

菲菲 (beautiful, very fragrant), 菲 (phenanthrene, Philippines, rich), 蕡 (abundant, hemp seeds), 豪華 , 豪华 (deluxe, Luxuries, luxury, Regal). (various references)

Czech

přepychový (comfortable, fancy, lavish, sumptuous), marnotratný (extravagant, lavish, prodigal, wasteful). (various references)

Dutch

weelderig (abundant, copious, de luxe, deluxe, plentiful, profuse), luxueus (de luxe, deluxe). (various references)

Esperanto

luksa (de luxe, deluxe). (various references)

Faeroese

marglætis (de luxe, deluxe). (various references)

Farsi 

مجلل (Gala, Glorious, Gorgeous, Grand, Illustrious, Imperial, Luxuriant, Plush, Royalty, Stately, Sumptuous), خوش گذران (Jovial, Sensual), دارای زندگی تجملی . (various references)

Finnish

loistelias (gorgeous, grand, resplendent, showy, splendid, sumptuous), ylellinen (extravagant, sumptuous). (various references)

French

luxueux (lush). (various references)

Frisian

lúksueus (de luxe, deluxe). (various references)

German

luxuriös (de luxe, deluxe, extravagant, luxuriously, palatial, palatially, plush, sumptuous, sumptuously). (various references)

Greek 

πολυτελήσ (de luxe, lavish, sumptuous), πολυτελής (lavish, luxury), τρυφηλόσ (lydian), τρυφηλός (comfortable). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפואר (glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, magnificent, palatial, splendid, stately, sumptuous), מ�"ו�"ר (adorned, chic, grand, ornate, rich, sporty, stylish), של מותרות. (various references)

Hungarian

pazar (bang-up, baronial, gorgeous, magnificent, opulent, prodigal, profuse, slap up, slap-up, smashing, sumptuous), luxus- (de luxe), fényűző (gorgeous, opulent, palatial, sumptuous). (various references)

Indonesian

mewah (deluxe, lavish, patial, plush, posh). (various references)

Italian

lussuoso (palatial, plushy, rich, sumptuous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

豊潤 (abundant, rich and prosperous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうじゅ�" (abundant, mellowness, rich and prosperous). (various references)

Korean 

호�"스러운. (various references)

Manx

soylleysagh (indulging, luxuriant), soaill (indolent). (various references)

Norwegian

luksuriøs, overdådig (lavish). (various references)

Papiamen

luhoso (de luxe, deluxe). (various references)

Pig Latin

uxuriouslay.(various references)

Portuguese

luxuoso. (various references)

Romanian

luxos (dainty, high, largely, luxuriously, magnificent, pompous, purple, rich), somptuos (gorgeous, magnificent, palatial, plush, princely, rich, richly, sumptuous, sumptuously), senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, Randy, salacious, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), risipitor (dissipated, extravagant, improvident, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful), cãruia îi place luxul, bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off). (various references)

Russian 

роскошный (de luxe, deluxe, lordly, palatial, plushy, posh, princely, rank, rich, splendid, sumptuous, voluptuous). (various references)

Scottish

sògh (luxurious ease, luxury). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

luksuzan (fancy, luxe: de luxe), raskošan (lavish, luxuriant, showy, sumptuary, sumptuous). (various references)

Spanish

lujoso (fat, lavish, lush, plush, plushy, ritzy). (various references)

Swedish

luxuös (de luxe, lush). (various references)

Thai

หรูหรา (flamboyant, florid, lush, ornate, silk-stocking, superb), มากมาย (copious, incalculable, jillion, numerous, skillion). (various references)

Turkish

lüks (costliness, costly, de luxe, grandeur, lux, luxe, luxury, plushy, posh, pukka, ritzy, stateliness, sumptuous, sumptuousness, swish, Tony, voluptuous), rahat (at ease, at rest, cavalier, comfort, comfortable, comfy, complacent, composure, cosy, cushioned, cushy, ease, easy, facile, leisure, peace, rest, restful, serene, snug, unconstrained, unconventional, undisturbed, unembarassed, untroubled), şaşaalı (effulgent, glittering, resplendent, splendent). (various references)

Ukrainian

розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, lordly, palatial, ritzy, splendid, sumptuous, swank, upholstered, voluptuous), марнотратний (expensive, extravagant, improvident, lavish, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, unsparing, wasteful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lộng lẫy; xa hoa, xa xỉ ưa khoái lạc; thích xa hoa, sang trọng (fashionable, plush, posh, royal, royally). (various references)

Welsh

moethus (pampered). (various references)

chium, luxuriosa, luxuriosam, luxuriosus, melchia, melchiae, melchias, sedechiae, sedechias, voluptuosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "luxurious": luxuriously, luxuriousness, luxuriousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "luxurious": superluxurious. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Luxurious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leucurus, lufurious, lugurious, luxerious, luxirious, luxiurious, luxrious, luxuirious, luxuroius, Ulugurus, uxurious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: loris, louis, lours, roils.

-5 letters: lour, oils, ours, roil, roux, silo, slur, soil, soli, sori, soul, sour, sulu, ulus, urus.

+2 letters: luxuriously.

+4 letters: luxuriousness.

+5 letters: superluxurious.