LUXURIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luxuriously mean? 

• LUXURIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb LUXURIOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. in an indulgently luxurious manner

2. in a rich manner

  Familiarity information: LUXURIOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUXURIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an indulgently luxurious manner

Context example:

she sprawled out luxuriously on the sofa

Pertainym:

luxurious (displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a rich manner

Synonyms:

high; luxuriously; richly

Context example:

he lives high

Pertainym:

luxurious (ostentatiously rich and superior in quality)

 Context examples 

With that he heaved a great sigh, and then, as if he had discharged his duty to the past, put his feet up on the sofa and enjoyed Amy's letter luxuriously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was the first night I had spent under cover in several months, and I lay luxuriously for some minutes under my blankets (for once not wet with fog or spray), analysing, first, the effect produced upon me by the cessation of the wind, and next, the joy which was mine from resting on the mattress made by Maud’s hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read them luxuriously as they wound up the shady road between green hedges, where tea roses bloomed as freshly as in June.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)