luxuriant
/lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/US/ləɡˈʒʊɹi.ənt/
luxuriant adjective: abundant in growth or detail.
Adjective
luxuriant (comparative more luxuriant, superlative most luxuriant)
- Abundant in growth or detail.
- She wore a dress of azure blue velvet, with a deep border of gold; her luxuriant hair was put back from her brow in a style which no face but the most perfect could have borne, and was then gathered in a form like that of an ancient helmet, every plait glittering with diamonds: it was peculiar, but...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 309–310
- Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll.1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 7
- Synonyms:
- gross
- Overdeveloped at the expense of essential organs.
luxuriant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
luxuriant in Tamil
- எளிதில் வளர்தல், வளர்ச்சி மிகைத்தல்
luxuriant in Urdu
- ہرا بھرا
luxuriant in Bengali
- সমৃদ্ধ
luxuriant in Malayalam
- lush, rich, abundant
- തഴച്ച, വാച്ച, സുസമൃദ്ധമായ, സുവൃദ്ധമായ, അതിസമൃദ്ധമായ, പരിപുഷ്ടമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- luxuriant in Kannada
- ಸೊಂಪಾಗಿ ಬೆಳೆದ, ಪುಷ್ಕಳವಾದ, ಹುಲುಸಾದ, ಸೊಂಪಾದ
- luxuriant in Sanskrit
- प्रौढ prauḍha
Examples of luxuriant in a sentence
- But her mind couldn’t help dwelling on the way the Russian’s long fingers had Welsh-combed his luxuriant hair.
- Besides, at the piano sat Ágnes Kallós, István’s fiancée, in a white dress, her luxuriant hair in a Madonna-braid.
- Slithering amongst the luxuriant growth were olive sea snakes.
Synonyms of luxuriant
Forms of luxuriant
| comparative | more luxuriant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most luxuriant |
Origin of luxuriant
Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, present participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”). Equivalent to luxury + -ant.
Words formed from luxuriant
Questions about luxuriant
- What does luxuriant mean?
- Luxuriant means abundant in growth or detail.
- What is luxuriant in Tamil?
- Luxuriant in Tamil is எளிதில் வளர்தல், வளர்ச்சி மிகைத்தல். See Luxuriant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is luxuriant?
- Luxuriant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce luxuriant?
- Luxuriant is pronounced /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/ (UK).
Words near luxuriant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: luxuriant (page history and authors); luxuriant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); luxuriant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); luxuriant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); luxuriant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); luxuriant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रौढ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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