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单词 luxuriant
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luxuriant
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adj

You can use the adjective luxuriant to describe something really luxurious or full and lush. If you walk through a dense forest after it rains, it's really luxuriant with green plants overgrowing the paths.
Natural, growing things are luxuriant when they're fertile and full of life. People and places that show a fullness of life and wealth are also luxuriant. If you enter a room full of deep, plush couches and expensive decorations you're in a luxuriant space. And anything really enjoyable to the senses — whether costly or not — can be luxuriant, like a really rich and creamy piece of warm vanilla cake with a large hot chocolate: that's luxuriant.
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luxuriant / luxurious

No doubt advertising affects language. Where would we be without the free gift, new and improved, or supersize? (Perhaps writing more grammatically and eating more healthily...) In yet another attempt to reduce English to features and selling points, advertisers often use luxuriant to describe their products or services:

Luxuriant Cracked Heel Repair

Luxuriant Christmas Tree Wallpaper

Miralux Luxuriant Mattress

Problem is luxuriant means lush growth; thick and rich. As in a luxuriant growth of leaves in the spring. What those advertisers really want is luxurious, as in self-indulgent; comfort, elegance, or enjoyment in the extreme:

Mediterranea ... is a luxurious community situated adjacent to the sea, boasting stunning views of the Mediterranean.

This luxurious penthouse at the One Hyde Park development in the Knightsbridge of London just sold for a record-breaking £140 million or $220 million.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy orders brand new, luxurious presidential jet to rival Air Force One

As a society, we tolerate a lot of bent or outright broken language rules in advertising. We tune a lot of it out, anyway. But the careful writer should not emulate advertising-speak and should be wary of copying its word usage. Using luxuriant for luxurious is very much considered an error and is to be avoided.

WORD FAMILY
luxuriant: luxuriance, luxuriantly+/luxuriance: luxuriances
USAGE EXAMPLES
The song invites a delicious, almost luxuriant self-pity and melancholy that envelops you like a steaming tub filled with expensive bath oils.
New York Times(Dec 22, 2016)
The reindeers, the snowmen, the sleds - all look very incongruous amid the city's luxuriant, tropical vegetation.
BBC(Dec 17, 2016)
Ms. Toro’s photos are luxuriant with that same crackling of reckless abandon, edged with the danger of being and the joy of it.
New York Times(Oct 13, 2016)
1adj produced or growing in extreme abundance
Syn
exuberant, lush, profuse, riotous
abundant
present in great quantity
2adj displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
Syn
epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
indulgent
characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
3adj marked by complexity and richness of detail
Syn
elaborate, ornate
fancy
not plain; decorative or ornamented
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