Crossword clues for sybaritic
sybaritic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sybaritic \Syb`a*rit"ic\, Sybaritical \Syb`a*rit"ic*al\, a. [L.
Sybariticus, Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites;
luxurious; wanton; effeminate. ``Sybaritic dinners.''
--Bp.
Warburton. ``Sybaritical cloistres.''
--Bp. Hall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin sybariticus, from Greek sybaritikos, from Sybarites (see sybarite).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent 2 Having the character of or dedicated to excessive luxury
WordNet
adj. furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, voluptuary, voluptuous]
Usage examples of "sybaritic".
The spectacle that followed depicted the rise and fall of the First Kingdom, and was built on the twin foundations of prurience and ufology, highlighted by an on-stage Nile flood, a sybaritic orgy, and the destruction of the Great Temple at Karnak by a departing spaceship.
Even captain Bullen, no admirer of the sybaritic life, had never been heard to complain of being pampered.
Which may explain why you don't see ebonies as often as sybaritic whites.
It was so sybaritic and had cost so much that embarrassing questions had been put to Shasa at the annual general meeting of the company by a group of dissident shareholders.
Reverend Thorn had never approved of either the Bromleys or their village, for both bespoke good living rather than piety, and he rarely approached Walpole without a definite feeling that God must one day punish this sybaritic place, a conviction which deepened when he neared the Bromley home, a handsome, large, white three-storied house with many gables.
This stark, rather cold shell was in direct contrast to the furniture in the rooms, which was sybaritic.
He lived almost constantly in one of his sybaritic pleasure-palaces, coming down to Earth only when it was time to view some finished product before its public release.
Molinari, as all citizens of Terra knew, lived an ascetic life, yet oddly intersticed with infrequent interludes of priapic, little-revealed sybaritic indulgence.
Oh, yes, here we are: Tradition in Revolution, Democratic Oligarchy, Parmenidean Dynamics, Heraclitean Statics, Spartan Sybaritics, Tautological Dialectics, Boolean Eristic.