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[ US /ɫəɡˈʒɝiənt/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌɡʒjʊɹˌi‍ənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by complexity and richness of detail
    an elaborate lace pattern
  2. produced or growing in extreme abundance
    their riotous blooming
  3. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
    a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
    enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs
    an epicurean banquet
    Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence

How To Use luxuriant In A Sentence

  • He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
  • The ground was luxuriant with colocynth, whose runners and fruits looked festive in the early light.
  • A subcategory of this genre of books is composed of in-depth narrative accounts of the experiences of individual students applying to Ivy League colleges, their every emotional nuance dwelled on in luxuriant detail. Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
  • These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • He still sports luxuriant sideburns, although he admits that he had to lighten his hair colour to suit his age. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tall, luxuriant plants grew along the river bank.
  • Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
  • Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
  • Many women enjoy more luxuriant hair later in pregnancy.
  • The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
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