SUMPTUOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sumptuous mean? 

• SUMPTUOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SUMPTUOUS has 1 sense:

1. ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

  Familiarity information: SUMPTUOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMPTUOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

Synonyms:

deluxe; gilded; grand; lush; luxurious; opulent; princely; sumptuous

Context example:

these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous

Similar:

rich (suggestive of or characterized by great expense)

Derivation:

sumptuosity; sumptuousness (the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive)

sumptuousness (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)

 Context examples 

For, though Julia has a stately house, and mighty company, and sumptuous dinners every day, I see no green growth near her; nothing that can ever come to fruit or flower.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even the squires' table at the Abbey of St. Andrew's at Bordeaux was on a very sumptuous scale while the prince held his court there.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the window was a sumptuous writing-desk, and every detail of the apartment, the pictures, the rugs, and the hangings, all pointed to a taste which was luxurious to the verge of effeminacy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leo is the sign of luxury, so on this trip, you are likely to go to a magnificent, sunny location (Leo is associated with its ruler the Sun and with warmth), and before you go, book sumptuous accommodations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On the other hand, it was furnished with the neatness and taste which belonged to his character, so that his most luxurious friends found something in the tiny rooms which made them discontented with their own sumptuous mansions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Within the first week of my passion, I bought four sumptuous waistcoats—not for myself; I had no pride in them; for Dora—and took to wearing straw-coloured kid gloves in the streets, and laid the foundations of all the corns I have ever had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)