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/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊɹ.i.əs/, /lʌkˈʃʊɹ.i.əs/

Adjective

luxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

   a luxurious hotel suite

   • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

     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.

2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
   • 1856, George P. Marsh, The Camel: His Organization Habits and Uses Considered with Reference to His Introduction into the United States, pages 115-116:

     Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel.

   • 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

• abstemious
• impoverished

Related terms

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxuriously
• luxury

Translations

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)
• Irish: macnasach
• Italian: lussuoso (it)
• Japanese: 豪華 (ja) (ごうか, gōka)
• Korean: 호화(豪華) (hohwa)
• Latin: lautus, opiparus
• Malagasy: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luksuriøs

  Nynorsk: luksuriøs

• Polish: luksusowy (pl)
• Portuguese: luxuoso (pt)
• Romanian: luxos (ro)
• 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 (gl)
• German: luxuriös (de)
• Italian: lussurioso (it)
• Portuguese: luxuoso (pt)
• Romanian: luxurios (ro)

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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} విలాసవంతమైన (vilāsavantamaina)

See also

• sumptuous

Further reading

• “luxurious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “luxurious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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.