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单词 sybaritic
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Definition of sybaritic in English:

sybaritic

adjective ˌsɪbəˈrɪtɪkˌsɪbəˈrɪdɪk
  • Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent.

    喜好声色的;自我放纵的

    their opulent and sybaritic lifestyle

    他们奢靡逸乐的生活方式。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
    • Consider, too, that she was in possession of a jewellery collection that included Faberge's finest and one of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklaces, and it is easy to see why courtiers gave up trying to disguise her sybaritic nature.
    • Side-by-side (it takes barely half an hour to get from one to the other) are the sybaritic pleasures of the beach and the heady exertions of the sort of outdoor life enjoyed by the Von Trapp family.
    • Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
    • The overall impression of the early rooms is of a sybaritic indulgence which echoes the richness and confidence of Venetian Renaissance society.
    • Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
    • The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
    • As Parker says, chastity and self-discipline were never going to come easily to ‘a sceptical, sybaritic, chain-smoking, egotistical and morally confused homosexual atheist’.
    • There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
    • After this sybaritic interlude, it's back to the wild west again to a tiny village called Ahipara, which trades in adventure.
    • So much sybaritic luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche.
    • Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
    • All my nostalgia for Venice has been evoked by an article in this week's Spectator, in which Stephen Glover describes the sybaritic pleasures of his weekend.
    • If you're used to shooting in England, then dove-shooting in northern Argentina seems indecently sybaritic and comfortable.
    • We were starring, fantastically, in our own movie, a romance that Halliburton might have written had he lived long enough to acquire a taste for the more sybaritic pleasures of travel.
    • I once found myself on a yacht with British wine writer Oz Clarke (okay, there were some sybaritic moments in this arduous working life).
    • The beaches haven't washed away, nor have the pockets of political conservatism or the illusion of a sybaritic lifestyle.
    • There are new luxury lodges and sybaritic spas to restore the body.
    • Patrick Bingham-Hall's sumptuous photographs certainly made me wish I had the cashflow to be welcomed into these sensual, sybaritic spaces.
    • The best suites have seafront terraces complete with king-size day beds and private rooftop terraces from which to enjoy the sunsets in sybaritic style.
    Synonyms
    luxurious, extravagant, pampered, lavish, self-indulgent, pleasure-seeking, sensual, voluptuous, hedonistic, epicurean, lotus-eating, libertine, debauched, dissolute, decadent, unrestrained, fast-living

Derivatives

  • sybaritical

  • adjective
  • sybaritically

  • adverb
    • The 2006 consumer is a sybaritically inclined but conscience-troubled shopper who is anxious to buy locally sourced ingredients which don't rack up the air miles but can be delivered to the door.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While not sybaritically luxurious, the plane's layout was comfortable and fairly roomy.
      • Today's more sybaritically inclined travellers can follow a more stylish route by opting for Cappadocia's other speciality: upmarket caves.
      • As the sun sank low in the west, I arose again, thoroughly rested and sybaritically sated, took a long, hot shower, dressed, and set forth anew.
      • This is the mood that is missing from descriptions of Venetians as almost sybaritically content within their watery enclosure.

Rhymes

analytic, anchoritic, anthracitic, arthritic, bauxitic, calcitic, catalytic, critic, cryptanalytic, Cushitic, dendritic, diacritic, dioritic, dolomitic, enclitic, eremitic, hermitic, lignitic, mephitic, paralytic, parasitic, psychoanalytic, pyritic, Sanskritic, saprophytic, Semitic, syenitic, syphilitic, troglodytic

Definition of sybaritic in US English:

sybaritic

adjectiveˌsɪbəˈrɪdɪkˌsibəˈridik
  • Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent.

    喜好声色的;自我放纵的

    their opulent and sybaritic lifestyle

    他们奢靡逸乐的生活方式。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
    • There are new luxury lodges and sybaritic spas to restore the body.
    • Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
    • Consider, too, that she was in possession of a jewellery collection that included Faberge's finest and one of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklaces, and it is easy to see why courtiers gave up trying to disguise her sybaritic nature.
    • The overall impression of the early rooms is of a sybaritic indulgence which echoes the richness and confidence of Venetian Renaissance society.
    • The best suites have seafront terraces complete with king-size day beds and private rooftop terraces from which to enjoy the sunsets in sybaritic style.
    • As Parker says, chastity and self-discipline were never going to come easily to ‘a sceptical, sybaritic, chain-smoking, egotistical and morally confused homosexual atheist’.
    • These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
    • Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
    • There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
    • All my nostalgia for Venice has been evoked by an article in this week's Spectator, in which Stephen Glover describes the sybaritic pleasures of his weekend.
    • If you're used to shooting in England, then dove-shooting in northern Argentina seems indecently sybaritic and comfortable.
    • So much sybaritic luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche.
    • We were starring, fantastically, in our own movie, a romance that Halliburton might have written had he lived long enough to acquire a taste for the more sybaritic pleasures of travel.
    • The beaches haven't washed away, nor have the pockets of political conservatism or the illusion of a sybaritic lifestyle.
    • I once found myself on a yacht with British wine writer Oz Clarke (okay, there were some sybaritic moments in this arduous working life).
    • After this sybaritic interlude, it's back to the wild west again to a tiny village called Ahipara, which trades in adventure.
    • Patrick Bingham-Hall's sumptuous photographs certainly made me wish I had the cashflow to be welcomed into these sensual, sybaritic spaces.
    • Side-by-side (it takes barely half an hour to get from one to the other) are the sybaritic pleasures of the beach and the heady exertions of the sort of outdoor life enjoyed by the Von Trapp family.
    • The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
    Synonyms
    luxurious, extravagant, pampered, lavish, self-indulgent, pleasure-seeking, sensual, voluptuous, hedonistic, epicurean, lotus-eating, libertine, debauched, dissolute, decadent, unrestrained, fast-living
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