sybaritic
Adjective Satellite
- displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
- "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
Adj
- Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīticus (“of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns). Sybarīticus is derived from Ancient Greek Συβαρῑτικός (Subarītikós), from Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”) (from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)) + -κός (-kós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as Sybarite (“inhabitant of Sybaris”) + -ic. 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.
Synonyms
epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, voluptuary, voluptuous, Babylonian, decadent, epicureal, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic, hedonistic, intemperate, lotus-eating, self-indulgent, sensualistic, sinful, sybarite, sybaritic, sybaritical, voluptuarian
Scrabble Score: 16
sybaritic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsybaritic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sybaritic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary