Sybaritic

American  

[sib-uh-rit-ik] / ˌsɪb əˈrɪt ɪk /

Sometimes Sybaritical

adjective

1. (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure.

   to wallow in sybaritic splendor.

2. of, relating to, or characteristic of Sybaris or its inhabitants.

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Sybaritic British  

/ ˌsɪbəˈrɪtɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the ancient Greek colony of Sybaris or its inhabitants

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Other Word Forms

• Sybaritically adverb

Etymology

Origin of Sybaritic

< Latin Sybarīticus < Greek Sybarītikós, equivalent to Sybarī́t ( ēs ) Sybarite + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

Before long, however, a seriously frightened Westen rushes to consult a sybaritic, Magus-like acquaintance named Jaime Donaldus Byers, who — in my favorite chapters of the novel — relates the history of an occultist named Thibault de Castries, author of “Megapolisomancy.”

From Washington Post

He was a voice of his generation’s most cherished ideals and its most pungent caricature, the man who wrote the willowy folk classic “Guinnevere” and a sybaritic braggart whose excesses required two memoirs to fully digest.

From Los Angeles Times

Say this much for Damien Chazelle: He shows his audience exactly what he’s giving them within the first few minutes of “Babylon,” his bruised, black-eyed valentine to Hollywood’s sybaritic heyday.

From Washington Post

San Francisco has the natural harbor, but we have the beaches, those soft, wide, sybaritic beaches.

From Los Angeles Times

In both episodes, Mr. Bogdanovich, always a wicked mimic, played to the hilt a sybaritic, smoking-jacket-clad, thinly veiled incarnation of Hugh Hefner.

From New York Times