US /ˈɒpjʊlənt/
adj Freq #45848

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Showing great wealth and luxury; richly grand.

    They were married in an opulent hotel filled with chandeliers and marble floors.

  2. 2
    adj

    Rich and abundant in quality or quantity.

    The garden was opulent with roses of every imaginable colour.

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Synonyms
1 adj · showing great wealth and... gilded
Word family
Derived forms inopulentopulentlyunopulent
Related forms opulence

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opulēns, opulentus, from ops (“wealth, power, resources”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃op- (“to work; produce in abundance”).

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