Word Meanings - LUXURIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower , one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the
Additional info about word: LUXURIANT
Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower , one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUXURIANT)
- Abundant
- Plentiful
- copious
- plenteous
- large
- ample
- overflowing
- teeming
- full
- lavish
- luxuriant
- bountiful
- abounding
- profuse
- liberal
- rich
- Fat
- Corpulent
- fleshy
- brawny
- pursy
- portly
- stout
- fertile
- unctuous
- obese
- oleaginous
- Fertile
- Rich
- productive
- exuberant
- causative
- conducive
- pregnant
- fraught
- prolific
- fecund
- fruitful
- ingenious
- inventive
- Rampant
- Unbridled
- uncontrolled
- wanton
- headstrong
- furious
- rank
- violent
- licentious
- vehement
- Redundant
- Superfluous
- excessive
- unnecessary
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LUXURIANT)
Related words: (words related to LUXURIANT)
- OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - INVENTIVE
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n. - STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - INGENIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - LAVISHNESS
The quality or state of being lavish. - PLENTIFUL
1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - VEHEMENTLY
In a vehement manner. - LAVISHER
One who lavishes. - ACCUMULATE
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard. - LIBERALIZE
To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke. - TREASURER
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; - BOUNTIFUL
1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv. - PREGNANT
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - TREASURERSHIP
The office of treasurer. - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - AMPLENESS
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - UNEXAMPLED
Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey. - ARCHTREASURER
A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - ILLIBERALISM
Illiberality. - UPHOARD
To hoard up. Shak. - UNFRUITFUL
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - MISESTEEM
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.