Word Meanings - SUMPTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned

Additional info about word: SUMPTUOUS

Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. -- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUMPTUOUS)

• Ceremonial
• Official
• ministerial
• functional
• pompous
• imposing
• sumptuous
• scenic
• Costly
• Valuable
• expensive
• high-priced
• rich
• precious
• Pompous
• Magnificent
• gorgeous
• splendid
• showy
• ostentatious
• stately
• lofty
• grand
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• pretentious
• coxcombical
• assuming
• Splendid
• Brilliant
• magnificent
• glorious
• illustrious
• superb
• famous
• heroic
• signal

Related words: (words related to SUMPTUOUS)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.