sumptuousness

  • 121grandeur — [n] great importance amplitude, augustness, beauty, breadth, brilliance, celebrity, circumstance, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, expansiveness, fame, fineness, glory, grandiosity, gravity, greatness, handsomeness, immensity,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 122luxury — [n] great pleasure, indulgence affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 123splendor — [n] radiance, glory brightness, brilliance, ceremony, dazzle, display, effulgence, gorgeousness, grandeur, luster, magnificence, majesty, pageant, pomp, refulgence, renown, resplendence, richness, show, solemnity, spectacle, stateliness,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 124grand days — In English practice, certain days in the terms, which are solemnly kept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascension day in Easter, St. John the Baptist day in Trinity, and All Saints in Michaelmas; which are… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 125grand days — In English practice, certain days in the terms, which are solemnly kept in the inns of court and chancery, viz., Candlemas day in Hilary term, Ascension day in Easter, St. John the Baptist day in Trinity, and All Saints in Michaelmas; which are… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 126sumptuous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ splendid and expensive looking. DERIVATIVES sumptuously adverb sumptuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin sumptuosus, from sumptus cost …

    English terms dictionary

  • 127sumptuously — sumptuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ splendid and expensive looking. DERIVATIVES sumptuously adverb sumptuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin sumptuosus, from sumptus cost …

    English terms dictionary

  • 128sumptuous — [sump′cho͞o əs] adj. [ME < OFr sumptueux < L sumptuosus < sumptus: see SUMPTUARY] 1. involving great expense; costly; lavish 2. magnificent or splendid, as in furnishings, etc. sumptuously adv. sumptuousness n …

    English World dictionary