Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: luxuriant
IPA transcription: [ləɡʒ'ɝiənt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous
    Meaning: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
  • Synonyms: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: elaborate, luxuriant
    Meaning: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
Usage examples
  • The long luxuriant and glossy tresses of the Typee damsels often attracted my admiration.
  • The tide was low, exposing a luxuriant growth of algae, which sent up a fine, fresh sea smell.
  • He had a hale and hearty appearance, luxuriant grey whiskers, the manners of a well-bred man, and a loud, pleasant voice.
  • Drayton before Shakespeare's time called Warwick "the heart of England," and the heart of England it is today--rich, luxuriant, slow.
  • Under their feet, the grass was fresh; beautiful shadows of branches flickered upon it, and speckled it; hedgerows were luxuriant; everything was at peace.
  • She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.
  • His imagination was perhaps more luxuriant and was allowed freer play than most men's, but it was nevertheless always controlled by rigid examination and comparison of hypotheses with fact.
  • Those large luminous eyes!--that proud Grecian nose!--those dark luxuriant curls!--"Ah!" said I, exultingly to myself, "this is indeed the speaking image of my beloved!" I turned the reverse, and discovered the words--"Eugenie Lalande--aged twenty-seven years and seven months."
  • Pending which operation, and his morning ablutions, and his anointing of himself with the last infallible preparation for the production of luxuriant and glossy hair upon the human countenance (quacks being the only sages he believed in besides usurers), the murky fog closed about him and shut him up in its sooty embrace.
  • Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.