单词 | luxuriant |
释义 | luxuriant (once / 1026 pages) 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. WORD FAMILYluxuriant: luxuriance, luxuriantly+/luxuriance: luxuriances USAGE EXAMPLESThe 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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