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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /lʌɡˈʒʊə.ɹɪəs/, /lʌɡˈzjʊə.ɹɪəs/, /lʌkˈsjʊə.ɹɪəs/
• (General American) IPA: /lʌɡˈʒʊɹ.i.əs/, /lʌkˈʃʊɹ.i.əs/

形容詞

luxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

   Synonyms: deluxe, opulent, plush, sumptuous, luxury

   Antonyms: basic, impoverished, poor

   a luxurious hotel suite

   • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

     With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.

   Synonyms: decadent, epicurean; see also Thesaurus:hedonistic

   Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious

   • 1856, George P. Marsh, The Camel: His Organization Habits and Uses Considered with Reference to His Introduction into the United States, pages 115-116:

     Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel.

   • 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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 […]

派生語

関連する語

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxuriously
• luxury

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “luxurious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “luxurious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From Old French luxurios, from Latin luxuriosus; equivalent to luxurie +‎ -ous.

発音

• IPA: /lukˈsjuːriˌuːs/, /lukˈsjuːrius/

形容詞

luxurious

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

派生した語

• English: luxurious

参照

• “luxūriǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 October 2018.