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sumptuous.

Adjective
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Rich, costly, and impressive in its luxurious abundance.

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  • sumptuous interior

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A sumptuous interior lay beyond the plain door.
They prepared a sumptuous banquet.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative more sumptuous; superlative most sumptuous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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