sumptuous
adjUK /ˈsʌmptʃuəs/ · /ˈsʌmpt͡ʃuəs/
Etymology From Middle French sumptueux, from Latin sumptuōsus, from sūmptus (“cost, charge, expense”), from sumō (“to take”) + -tus (noun formation suffix).
1
Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
- sumptuous feast
- sumptuous surroundings
4 more examples
- 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;1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- Derived terms
- scrumptious, sumption, sumptuary, sumptuosity, sumptuously, sumptuousness, unsumptuous, volumptuous