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Definition of Sumptuous

Sumptuous

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

Sumptuous Quotations

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.
Emmy Rossum

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
Johann Georg Hamann

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
Diosdado Macapagal

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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Sumptuous Translations

sumptuous in French is somptueux
sumptuous in German is kostbar
sumptuous in Italian is fastoso, lussuoso
sumptuous in Spanish is rumboso, lucido
sumptuous in Swedish is praktfull

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