sumptuously

1. 1.

   in a sumptuous and opulent manner

   “this government building is sumptuously appointed”

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Questions about sumptuously

What does sumptuously mean?

sumptuously means "in a sumptuous and opulent manner".

How many syllables are in sumptuously?

sumptuously has 4 syllables and divides as sump-tu-ou-sly 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.

What is another word for sumptuously?

Close synonyms include opulently. 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 sumptuously a common word?

sumptuously 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.