How to spell luxurious

hear itlux·u·ri·ous/ləɡ'ʒʊriəs/adjectiveSchwa and roots

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. Often misspelled as luxerious or luxuriouss.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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