different between sublime vs luxurious
sublime
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??bla?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublim? (“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).
Verb
sublime (third-person singular simple present sublimes, present participle subliming, simple past and past participle sublimed)
- (chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate.
- (transitive) To raise on high.
- 1857, E. P. Whipple, Harper's Magazine
- a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit
- 1857, E. P. Whipple, Harper's Magazine
- (transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
- Synonym: (archaic) sublimate
- (transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation
- An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation
Related terms
- sublimation
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French sublime, from Latin subl?mis (“high”), from sub- (“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin l?mis, ablative singular of l?mus (“oblique”) or l?men (“threshold, entrance, lintel”)
Adjective
sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)
- Noble and majestic.
- 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- the sublime Julian leader
- 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
- (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
- Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
- (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
- Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
Related terms
- subliminal
Translations
Noun
sublime (plural sublimes)
- Something sublime.
Translations
Anagrams
- blueism
Danish
Adjective
sublime
- definite of sublim
- plural of sublim
French
Etymology
From Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.blim/
- Rhymes: -im
Adjective
sublime (plural sublimes)
- sublime, extraordinary
Derived terms
- Sublime Porte
Verb
sublime
- inflection of sublimer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “sublime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
sublime
- inflection of sublim:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sublimis.
Adjective
sublime (plural sublimi)
- sublime
Related terms
- sublimità
Latin
Adjective
subl?me
- vocative masculine singular of subl?mus
References
- sublime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sublime in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sublime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subl?mus.
Adjective
sublime m or f (plural sublimes)
- sublime (noble, majestic, magnificent, etc.)
Descendants
- French: sublime
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /su.?bli.m?/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /su.?bli.m?/
- Hyphenation: su?bli?me
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin subl?mis.
Adjective
sublime m or f (plural sublimes, comparable)
- sublime
Noun
sublime m, f (plural sublimes)
- sublime
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
sublime
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sublimar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sublimar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sublimar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sublimar
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sublimis.
Adjective
sublime (plural sublimes)
- sublime
Verb
sublime
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sublimar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
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luxurious
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)
- Very fine in quality and comfortable.
- a luxurious hotel suite
- (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 […]
- 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association
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
- Lusty, lascivious; sexually transgressive.
- 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.
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