Dictionary Definition
luxury adj : elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe
car"; "luxe accommodations"; "a luxury condominium" [syn: deluxe, de luxe, luxe, luxury(a)]
Noun
1 something that is an indulgence rather than a
necessity
2 the quality possessed by something that is
excessively expensive [syn: lavishness, sumptuosity, sumptuousness]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlʌkʃəri/
Noun
- very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
- something desirable but expensive.
- something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
Translations
very wealthy and comfortable surroundings
- Croatian: luksuz
- Finnish: ylellisyys, luksus, loisto
- German: Luxus
something desirable but expensive
- Croatian: luksuz
- Finnish: ylellisyys
- German: Luxus
something very pleasant but not really needed in
life
- Croatian: luksuz
- Finnish: ylellisyys
- German: Luxus
Translations to be checked
Adjective
- very expensive
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Luxury can refer to several things:
- Luxury good, an economic good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises; contrast with inferior good and normal good.
- Luxury tax, a tax on products not considered essential, such as expensive cars
- Luxury tax (sports), a surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a sports team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league
- Luxury vehicle, a relatively expensive automobile
- Luxury yacht, a very expensive privately owned yacht which is professionally crewed
- Luxury real estate, a niche real estate market dealing with the highest economic group of property buyers
- Luxury resorts, which are very exclusive vacation facilities
- Luxury box, a term for a special seating section in arenas, stadiums and other sports venues
- Luxury magazine, a magazine devoted to fine craft and luxury goods.
Also:
- Luxury (band), a rock band from Toccoa, Georgia
- "Luxury," a song by The Wrens from their 1996 album Secaucus
- Luxury (album), the second album from Fantastic Plastic Machine
- Luxury, the 2007 album from The Nein
luxury in Polish: Luksus
luxury in Yiddish: לוקסוס
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Babylonian splendor, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Easy Street,
affluence, amenity, amusement, animal pleasure,
appeal, appealingness, appetite, appetitiveness, attractiveness, bed of
roses, bedizenment,
bewitchment, bodily
pleasure, brilliance,
captivation, carnal
delight, charm, clover, comfort, confidence, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts,
dainty, delicacy, delight, delightfulness, duplication, duplication of
effort, ease, easy
circumstances, elaborateness, elegance, embellishment, enchantment, endpleasure, enjoyment, enravishment, entertainment, entrancement, epicureanism, epicurism, ethical hedonism,
euphoria, expendable, expletive, exquisiteness, extra, extravagance, fascination, fat, featherbedding, felicity, filling, fleshpots, forepleasure, frill, frills, frippery, fruition, fun, gingerbread, glamour, glory, gorgeousness, grace, gracious life, gracious
living, grandeur,
grandiosity,
grandness, gratification, great
satisfaction, gusto,
happiness, hearty
enjoyment, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, imposingness, impressiveness, indulgence, intellectual
pleasure, invitingness, joie de
vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lap of luxury, lavishness, life of ease,
loaves and fishes, loveliness, luxuriousness, magnificence, majesty, needlessness, nobility, opulence, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding,
physical pleasure, pleasure, pleasure principle,
pleasure-seeking, pleonasm, plushness, poshness, prolixity, prosperity, prosperousness, proudness, psychological
hedonism, quiet pleasure, redundance, redundancy, relish, resplendence, richness, ritziness, satisfaction, security, self-gratification,
self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sensuous
pleasure, sensuousness, sexual
pleasure, splendidness, splendiferousness,
splendor, state, stateliness, success, sumptuousness, superfluity, superfluousness,
sweetness of life, sybaritism, tantalizingness,
tautology, temptingness, the affluent
life, the good life, thriving condition, titillation, treat, unchastity, unnecessariness, upward
mobility, velvet,
verbosity, voluptuousness, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, winningness, winsomeness, witchery, zest