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How to spell luxurious

Luxurious is spelled L-U-X-U-R-I-O-U-S.

What it means: Very comfortable, elegant, and expensive.

In a sentence: The hotel room felt luxurious with its soft beds and big TV. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: luxury, luxuriously, luxuriant, deluxe, opulent. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Luxurious” comes from the Latin word “luxuria,” meaning excess or extravagance. Over time, the word shifted from a negative sense of over-indulgence to a more neutral or positive idea of comfort and high quality.

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