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luxuriant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective luxuriant has 3 senses
- luxuriant(s = adj.all) elaborate - marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" Derived form noun luxuriance1
- luxuriant(s = adj.all) epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous - displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
- luxuriant(s = adj.all) exuberant, lush, profuse, riotous - produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" Derived forms noun luxuriance1, verb luxuriate3
CIDE DICTIONARY
luxuriant, a. [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See Luxuriate.].
- Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. [1913 Webster]"Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine." [1913 Webster]
- Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil. [PJC]
- Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
luxuriant, adj.
1 (of vegetation etc.) lush, profuse in growth.
2 prolific, exuberant, rank (luxuriant imagination).
3 (of literary or artistic style) florid, richly ornate.
1 (of vegetation etc.) lush, profuse in growth.
2 prolific, exuberant, rank (luxuriant imagination).
3 (of literary or artistic style) florid, richly ornate.
Derivative
luxuriance n. luxuriantly adv.
Etymology
L luxuriare grow rank f. luxuria LUXURY
THESAURUS
luxuriant
abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, busy, chichi, colored, copious, creative, decorated, deluxe, dense, diffuse, effuse, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flashy, florid, flourishing, flowery, flush, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fussy, galore, garish, gaudy, generous, gross, heavy, high-wrought, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jungled, jungly, labored, lavish, liberal, luscious, lush, luxurious, many, maximal, moresque, much, numerous, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing, overgrown, overlabored, overloaded, overrun, overworked, overwrought, palatial, picturesque, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plush, pregnant, pretty-pretty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, rampant, rank, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rococo, running over, seminal, showy, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unweeded, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesaleROGET THESAURUS
luxuriant
Sufficiency
VB be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.
Productiveness
N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.
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