Sumptuous

/ˈsʌmptʃuəs/ · adjective

Meaning

Magnificent, luxurious, splendid..

Example Sentences

sumptuous feast

sumptuous surroundings

sumptuous interior

They dined in a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with gold.

The fabric has a sumptuous texture.

Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loathe his vegetable meal;

I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.

It was a sumptuous nature, perhaps, that could not be brought to regard money; a natural generosity and kindness; and possibly a petty vanity that was pleased with praise, even with the praise of waiters and cabmen.

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• more sumptuous
• most sumptuous

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