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sybaritic

/ˌsɪbəˈrɪtɪk/adjective

उच्चारण सिबरिटिक

विलासी, भोग-विलासपूर्ण

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    formal

    connected with a desire for pleasure and luxury

    विलासी, भोग-विलासपूर्ण

    • a sybaritic lifestyle
    • His sybaritic holidays included spas and expensive dinners.
    • The sybaritic hotel offered massages, fine wine and silk sheets.
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    • Critics called his lifestyle sybaritic, since he spent a fortune on meals.
    • The novel describes a sybaritic king who cared only for comfort.

    Synonyms luxurious hedonistic self-indulgent pleasure-seeking decadent

    Opposite ascetic austere spartan abstemious

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Keep the luxury-loving words together: sybaritic, hedonistic, epicurean (enjoying good food and drink), voluptuous, self-indulgent.

विलासिता-प्रेम के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: sybaritic, hedonistic, epicurean (अच्छे भोजन और पेय का आनंद लेने वाला), voluptuous, self-indulgent।

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A person who loves luxury and pleasure is a sybarite or hedonist; who lives a very simple life without pleasures an ascetic.

विलासिता और सुख-प्रेमी sybarite या hedonist; बिना सुख के बहुत सादा जीवन जीने वाला ascetic (तपस्वी)।