sybarite
Plural: sybarites
Noun
- A person devoted to pleasure and luxury.
- a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
- A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
Adj
- Synonym of sybaritic (“of or having the qualities of a sybarite; dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent”).
Examples
- The Scrabble sybarite always played with designer tiles and a velvet-lined board.
Origin / Etymology
The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Synonyms
voluptuary, Babylonian, bon viveur, decadent, epicure, epicureal, epicurean, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, high-stepper, intemperate, lapling, lotus-eater, lotus-eating, luxurious, pleasure seeker, pleasurist, self-indulgent, sensualist, sensualistic, sinful, softling, sybarite, sybaritic, sybaritical, voluptuarian
Antonyms
hedonophobe
Scrabble Score: 13
sybarite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsybarite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sybarite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary