sumptuary

1. 1.

   regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior

   “sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots”

   “sumptuary laws forbidding gambling”

   Similarrestrictive

Questions about sumptuary

What does sumptuary mean?

sumptuary means "regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior".

How many syllables are in sumptuary?

sumptuary has 4 syllables and divides as sump-tu-a-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sumptuary a common word?

sumptuary 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.