opulent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.

   He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.

2. 2
   adj

   Rich, sumptuous and extravagant.

   The outdoor setting around the lily ponds in the twin courtyards of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is opulent with maples in radiant hues, and a veritable forest of conifers and bamboo with underplantings like bush-clover, silver grass and balloon flowers from the “seven flowers of autumn” cited in early Japanese poems.

3. 3
   adj

   rich and superior in quality

Etymology

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