luxuriant

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lux=u=ri=ant
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

luxuriant, a. [L. luxurians, p. pr. of luxuriare: cf. F. luxuriant. See Luxuriate.].

•  Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; profuse; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.  [1913 Webster]

  "Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine."  [1913 Webster]
•  Producing luxuriant growth; very fertile; -- of soil.  [PJC]
•  Having or producing an abundance of elaborate details; unrestrained; -- of imagery or ornamentation.  [PJC]

Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

luxuriant, adj.
1 (of vegetation etc.) lush, profuse in growth.
2 prolific, exuberant, rank (luxuriant imagination).
3 (of literary or artistic style) florid, richly ornate.

Derivative

luxuriance n. luxuriantly adv.

Etymology

L luxuriare grow rank f. luxuria LUXURY

THESAURUS

luxuriant

abounding, abundant, adorned, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arabesque, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, busy, chichi, colored, copious, creative, decorated, deluxe, dense, diffuse, effuse, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fat, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flashy, florid, flourishing, flowery, flush, frilly, fructiferous, fruitful, full, fussy, galore, garish, gaudy, generous, gross, heavy, high-wrought, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, jungled, jungly, labored, lavish, liberal, luscious, lush, luxurious, many, maximal, moresque, much, numerous, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overflowing, overgrown, overlabored, overloaded, overrun, overworked, overwrought, palatial, picturesque, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plush, pregnant, pretty-pretty, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, rampant, rank, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rococo, running over, seminal, showy, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, uberous, unweeded, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

ROGET THESAURUS

luxuriant

Sufficiency

VB be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.

N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.