[responsivevoice] sybaritic [/responsivevoice] [ sib-uh-rit-ik ]
The word of the day is ‘sybaritic.’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Devoted to pleasure
2. Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure
3. Self-indulgent
4. Furnishing gratification to the senses
1. Hindi – Vilaas priy
2. Spanish – Sibarítico
3. French – Sybarite
4. Mandarin – Kèbǎn de
1. We were becoming selfish, self-indulgent, sybaritic rapidly.
2. I had heard that Sir William Howe was of sybaritic temperament.
3. His wide, thin lips were pursed in sybaritic enjoyment of his cigar.
4. That is as near to sybaritic luxury as a man should care to come.
5. Though born to the forest, and a good woodsman, he had sybaritic tastes, which needed only opportunity to bud and bloom.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
epicurean, hedonic, hedonistic, pleasure-seeking, voluptuary, voluptuous, luxurious, extravagant, pampered, lavish, self-indulgent, sensual, lotus-eating, libertine, debauched, dissolute, decadent, unrestrained, fast-living etc.
abstemious, ascetic, sober, nonindulgent, temperate, self-abnegating, self-disciplined
Quotation:
At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, the prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savour one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s Heautontimoroumenos? I am both wound and knife”—that is our absolute, our eternity.
Emil Cioran
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