different between costly vs luxurious

English

Etymology

From Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st.li/

Adjective

costly (comparative costlier, superlative costliest)

1. Of high cost; expensive.

   a costly activity

   a costly error

Antonyms

• costlessly

Translations

Anagrams

• octyls

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??????.i.?s/, /l???zj??.i.?s/, /l?k?sj??.i.?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??????.i.?s/, /l?k????.i.?s/

Adjective

luxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

   a luxurious hotel suite

2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury.
   • 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association

     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

• impoverished
• abstemious

Related terms

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxuriously
• luxury

Translations

See also

• sumptuous

Further reading

• luxurious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• luxurious at 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): /luk?sju?ri?u?s/, /luk?sju?rius/

Adjective

luxurious

1. Lusty, lascivious; sexually transgressive.
2. Shocking; surprising in a negative way.

Descendants

• English: luxurious

References

• “lux?ri?us, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-20.