luxurious

Questions about luxurious

What does luxurious mean?

luxurious means "displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in luxurious?

luxurious has 4 syllables: lux-u-ri-ous. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ləɡˈʒɝiəs/.

What is another word for luxurious?

Close synonyms include epicurean, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous. 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 luxurious a common word?

luxurious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.