luxuriate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, from lūxuriō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹ.i.eɪt/

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Verb

luxuriate (third-person singular simple present luxuriates, present participle luxuriating, simple past and past participle luxuriated)

1. (intransitive) To enjoy luxury, to indulge.

   Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:

     He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.

   • 1988 December 25, Christopher Wittke, “A Landmark In Gay Cinematic History”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:

     But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.

   • 2019 March 20, Ryan Lizza, “The Esquire Interview: Mayor Peter Buttigieg”, in Esquire‎^[1]:

     But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.

2. (intransitive) To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “luxuriate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “luxuriate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

Participle

lū̆xuriāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lū̆xuriātus