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lux⋅u⋅ri⋅ous

  [luhg-zhoor-ee-uhs, luhk-shoor-]
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–adjective
1. characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
2. given to or loving luxury; wanting or requiring what is choice, expensive, or the like: a person with luxurious tastes.
3. given to pleasure, esp. of the senses; voluptuous.
4. present or occurring in great abundance, rich profusion, etc.; opulent: a luxurious harvest; music of luxurious beauty.
5. excessively ornate; overelaborate: luxurious prose.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < L luxuriōsus. See luxury, -ous

Related forms:
lux⋅u⋅ri⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
lux⋅u⋅ri⋅ous⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. rich, sumptuous. 2. epicurean. 3. sensual, self-indulgent.

Antonyms:
1. squalid.
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lux·u·ri·ous   (lŭg-zhŏŏr'ē-əs, lŭk-shŏŏr'-)   
adj.  

  1. Fond of or given to luxury.

  2. Marked by or contributing to luxury.

  3. Of a sumptuous, costly, or rich variety. See Synonyms at sensuous.

lux·u'ri·ous·ly adv., lux·u'ri·ous·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

luxurious 
c.1330, "lascivious, lecherous, unchaste," from O.Fr. luxurius (Fr. luxurieux), from L. luxuriosus, from luxuria (see luxury). Meaning "given to luxury, voluptuous" (of persons) is from 1606. Of things, meaning "characterized by luxury" is attested from 1650.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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