luxurious

luxurious 1 voluptuous, sybaritic, epicurean, *sensuous, sensual

Analogous words: self-indulging or self-indulgent, self-pampering (see base words at INDULGE): languorous, languishing (see LANGUID)

Antonyms: ascetic

Contrasted words: austere, stern, *severe: self-denying, self-abnegating (see corresponding nouns at RENUNCIATION)

2 Luxurious, sumptuous, opulent are comparable when they are applied to things and mean ostentatiously or obviously rich and magnificent.

Something luxurious (see also SENSUOUS) is exceedingly choice and costly

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luxurious sable coat

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the luxurious appointments of their drawing room

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a luxurious cargo of wine, olive oil, and candied tropic fruits— Wylie

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Something sumptuous is extravagantly rich, splendid, gorgeous, or luxurious; the word usually suggests a grandeur or magnificence that almost over-whelms the senses

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the sumptuous life of the Court provided material for some painters— Binyon

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Venice, soon to be known as the most beautiful and sumptuous city of Europe— Ellis

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a velvet gown, sumptuous and wine-purple, with a white ruff that stood up . . . high and stiff— Edmund Wilson

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for the most sumptuous masques in England, Italian managers, engineers and artists were brought over— T. S. Eliot

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Something opulent (see also RICH) flaunts or seems to flaunt its luxuriousness, or luxuriance, and, in some cases costliness

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offered the bribe not only of her person but of an opulent and glittering eastern throne— Buchan

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the diction of poetry became, with notable exceptions, opulent, sumptuous, lavish, rather than pointed, terse, concrete— Lowes

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Analogous words: ostentatious, pretentious, *showy: magnificent, stately, imposing, majestic, *grand: *costly, expensive, valuable, precious

Contrasted words: frugal, thrifty, economical, *sparing: *meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, scrimpy, spare, exiguous