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luxurious

adj
/lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/UK/lʌɡˈʒʊɹ.i.əs/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from lū̆xuriōsus
  2. derived from luxurios
  3. inherited from luxurious

Definitions

  1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

    • a luxurious hotel suite
    • 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.
    • Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft

  2. Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.

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

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Derived

luxuriosity, luxuriousness, luxurity, overluxurious, semiluxurious, superluxurious, ultraluxurious, unluxurious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at luxurious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01luxurious02comfortable03comfort04consolation05consoled06console07home08abundant09richly

A definitional loop anchored at luxurious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at luxurious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA