different between luxury vs luxurious

English

Etymology

From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?k.??.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?????i/, /?l?k???i/

Noun

luxury (countable and uncountable, plural luxuries)

1. Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
2. Something desirable but expensive.
3. Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.

Synonyms

• luxe

Antonyms

• (dispensable thing): necessity

Translations

Adjective

luxury (comparative more luxury, superlative most luxury)

1. very expensive
2. not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
3. (automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.

Coordinate terms

(automotive):

• premium
• economy

Translations

Related terms

• luxe
• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxurious
• luxuriously

Further reading

• luxury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• luxury at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Noun

luxury

1. Alternative form of luxurie

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.