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Antonyms for sumptuousness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : suhmp-choo-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌmp tʃu əs

Definition of sumptuousness

Origin :
  • late 15c., from Old French sumptueux, from Latin sumptuosus "costly, expensive," from sumptus "cost, expense," past participle of sumere "spend, consume, take," contraction of *sub-emere, from sub- "under" + emere "to take, buy" (see exempt (adj.)).
  • noun glitter
Example sentences :
  • Ascher does not care for sumptuousness or abundance; but he knows how to eat well.
  • Extract from : « Gossamer » by George A. Birmingham
  • The sumptuousness of the background was disastrous to the pictures.
  • Extract from : « The Life of James McNeill Whistler » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • All this sumptuousness was destroyed in the sixth century by the Goths.
  • Extract from : « Rambles in Rome » by S. Russell Forbes
  • This is not the result of sumptuousness and elaboration, but of pure applied science.
  • Extract from : « The Turkish Bath » by Robert Owen Allsop
  • I was surprised at the sumptuousness of the apartment, and did not hesitate to say so.
  • Extract from : « The Last Cruise of the Spitfire » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • Some of them are almost palatial in size and sumptuousness of arrangement.
  • Extract from : « Our Old Home » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • She talked to me of Scotland, and perhaps I noticed in her a tendency to enlarge on the sumptuousness of her establishment there.
  • Extract from : « The Trembling of a Leaf » by William Somerset Maugham
  • He kept his carriages and horses, his cellar of costly wines, and entertained on a scale of great extravagance and sumptuousness.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 » by Various
  • The sumptuousness of a feast may mean great friendship, but it may be used to hide intense enmity.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Quarles » by Percy James Brebner
  • In this medium he arrived at a sumptuousness unsurpassed by preceding painters.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright

Synonyms for sumptuousness

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