different between luxuriant vs luxurious

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???zj???i.?nt/, /l???????i.?nt/, /l??-/, /-???i.?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??????i.?nt/, /l?k????i.?nt/, /-?i.?nt/

Adjective

luxuriant (comparative more luxuriant, superlative most luxuriant)

1. Abundant in growth or detail.

Derived terms

Related terms

• luxury
• luxurious

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyk.sy.?j??/
• Homophone: luxuriants

Adjective

luxuriant (feminine singular luxuriante, masculine plural luxuriants, feminine plural luxuriantes)

1. luxuriant

Further reading

• “luxuriant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

l?xuriant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of l?xuri?

Romanian

Etymology

From French luxuriant, from Latin luxurians.

Adjective

luxuriant m or n (feminine singular luxuriant?, masculine plural luxurian?i, feminine and neuter plural luxuriante)

1. lush

Declension

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.