luxury
Plural: luxuries
Noun
- Great comfort, pleasure, or elegance, especially expensive.
- something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
- the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
- wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
- Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
- Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
- Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).
- Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
- Copulation; the act or action of sex.
Adj
- Very expensive.
- Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
- Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
Examples
- Achieving a bingo was a luxury he rarely afforded himself in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Synonyms
lavishness, luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuosity, sumptuousness, luxe
Antonyms
austerity, basics#Noun, essential#Noun, essentials#Noun, necessity#Noun, penury, poverty, spartanness
Scrabble Score: 16
luxury: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordluxury: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
luxury: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary