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ritzy

/ˈɹɪtsi/

ritzy adjective: elegant and luxurious.

Adjective

ritzy (comparative ritzier, superlative ritziest)

  1. Elegant and luxurious.
    • His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.1997, Aileen Schumacher, Engineering for Murder, page 69

ritzy meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

ritzy in Bengali

মার্জিত এবং বিলাসবহুল

ritzy in Malayalam

posh, stylish, smart
ഏറ്റം മോടിപിടിപ്പിച്ച, അത്യന്തം മോടിയുള്ള, പരിഷ്കാരമുള്ള, ഫാഷനുള്ള, നവീനരീതിയിലുള്ള, പകിട്ടുള്ള

Forms of ritzy

comparativeritzier
superlativeritziest

Origin of ritzy

From the Ritz Hotels of New York, London, etc (now Ritz-Carlton Hotels) + -y, from Ritz hotel founder César Ritz, from southern Switzerland. For the surname see Ritz. Compare English glitzy.

Words formed from ritzy

Questions about ritzy

What does ritzy mean?
Ritzy means elegant and luxurious.
What is ritzy in Bengali?
Ritzy in Bengali is মার্জিত এবং বিলাসবহুল. See Ritzy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ritzy?
Ritzy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ritzy?
Ritzy is pronounced /ˈɹɪtsi/.

Words near ritzy in the dictionary

  1. ritziness
  2. ritzing
  3. Ritzman
  4. Ritzmans
  5. Ritzville
  6. ritzy
  7. ritzy-glitzy
  8. riuer
  9. riuers
  10. Riukiu
  11. riv'n

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ritzy (page history and authors); ritzy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ritzy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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