Luxury

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something inessential but conducive to pleasure and comfort.
  • n. Something expensive or hard to obtain.
  • n. Sumptuous living or surroundings: lives in luxury.
  • adj. Providing luxury: a luxury car.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  • n. something desirable but expensive.
  • n. something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
  • adj. very expensive
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
  • n. Anything which pleases the senses, is not necessary for life, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; Contrasted to necessity.
  • n. Lechery; lust.
  • n. Luxuriance; exuberance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Luxuriance; exuberance of growth.
  • n. A free or extravagant indulgence in pleasure, as of the table; voluptuousness in the gratification of any appetite; also, the free expenditure of wealth for the gratification of one's own desires, as in costly dress and equipage.
  • n. That which is delightful to the senses, the feelings, etc.; especially, that which gratifies a nice and fastidious appetite or taste; a dainty: as, a house filled with luxuries; the luxuries of the table.
  • n. Exuberant enjoyment; complete gratification or satisfaction, either physical or intellectual.
  • n. Lust; lewd desire; lasciviousness; indulgence in lust.
  • n. Synonyms and Epicurism, effeminacy, sensuality, delicacy, gratification, pleasure, enjoyment, delight. See luxurious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
  • n. wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
  • n. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
  • Antonym
    necessity   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    comfort    enjoyment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    comfort    wealth    pleasure    beauty    magnificence    enjoyment    amusement    pride    extravagance    cruelty