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Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.

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  1. a. Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.
  2. adj. ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
  3. 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.
  4. 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 shiningexpectation fixed on mine. Tennyson.-- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv.-- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s rich and superior in quality