luxurious
/lʌɡˈʒʊɹi.əs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very fine in quality and comfortable.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel."
- "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 […]"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: luxurious, luxurios, lū̆xuriōsus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lʌɡˈʒʊɹi.əs/
- British English: /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more luxurious (comparative)
most luxurious (superlative)