luxurious

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”).

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

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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 […]

• epicurean

• impoverished
• abstemious

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
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• luxury

• sumptuous

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

• luxsorius, luxorious, luxoryows, luxuryouse, luxuriouse

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

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

luxurious

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

• English: luxurious

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