luxuriate

Other forms of luxuriate

past tense

luxuriated·

present participle

luxuriating·

third person

luxuriates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about luxuriate

What does luxuriate mean?

luxuriate means "become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in luxuriate?

luxuriate has 4 syllables: lux-u-ri-ate. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for luxuriate?

Close synonyms include wanton, indulge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is luxuriate a common word?

luxuriate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.