sumptuous — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Extremely costly; suggesting great expense.

2. Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.

   Synonyms

   lavish

   Examples

   sumptuous feast

   sumptuous surroundings

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   sumptuous interior

   They dined in a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with gold.

   The fabric has a sumptuous texture.

   Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loathe his vegetable meal;

   I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.

   It was a sumptuous nature, perhaps, that could not be brought to regard money; a natural generosity and kindness; and possibly a petty vanity that was pleased with praise, even with the praise of waiters and cabmen.

   There were some unofficial local rejoicings, but none of the elaborate junketings which marked the birth of earlier railways. The company had little cash to spend on sumptuous cold collations, and the like.

   Cabaye pulled all the strings in a dominant home performance and capped a majestic individual display with a sumptuous first-time finish into the far corner for his second goal of the afternoon.

Adjective

1. ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

   Synonyms

   deluxegildedgrandluxuriousopulentprincelylush

   Examples

   a princely sum

   gilded dining rooms

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   these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous