Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
Etymologies
- From Latin Sybarita, from Ancient Greek Συβαρίτης (Subaritēs, "inhabitant of Subaris"), from Σύβαρις (Subaris, "Sybaris (an ancient Greek city in southeastern Italy noted for the luxurious, pleasure-seeking habits of many of its inhabitants)") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One of their cities on the coast of Italy was called Sybaris, and it has given us the word "sybarite," which means a person who abandons himself to luxury.”
“As a travel writer and a sybarite, I have visited numerous spas around the world.”
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“Ertegun, a jet-setting sophisticate and sybarite who was hipper than his competitors, proved irresistible to rockers and their managers, and he landed the best and bestselling of the British bands including Cream, Led Zeppelin, and ultimately the Rolling Stones.”
“Agatha turned off the motor and said, “Look at that wise old sybarite.””
“After an evening of excess and a day of regret, even the most committed sybarite can be tempted to take the following night off.”
“Beatty is, of course, George and Lester, the sybarite and the businessman, which is perhaps why he identified so closely with Howard Hughes.”
“He was not exactly a sybarite, but he liked to do things in style.”
“Worry not; if you are so, I join in lust as a sybarite.”
“The citys luxury was so legendary that even today, sybarite is still a synonym for hedonist.”
“Given the financial sector's recent precipitous fall from grace, is there any better symbol of our era than a reckless sybarite who's addicted to borrowed money?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sybarite’.
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June 2013
septum, sybarite, primogeniture, dolorous, manacle, jeremiad, kindred, pleonectic, cabotinage, saccade, gonfalon, foible
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Naresh_Gre2
convoke, cosset, coterie, declaim, distaff, doff, dovetail, droll, dyspeptic, egress, ersatz, euphemism and 108 more...
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Words of the Day
Words that have been words of the day that are pretty good words.
entelechy, anoesis, apopemptic, catawampus, forficate, addlepated, scrobiculate, wifty, quidnunc, analphabet, gormandizer, mickle and 13 more...
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Pursue bliss
Words for those who believe everyday should be your day in the sun. Follow your bliss!
Bon vivant, frabjous, Joseph Campbell, bel esprit, esthete, elegantiarum, grammaticaster, jouissance, surplus-jouissance, elysian, thaumazein, mirabile dictu and 61 more...
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Favorite Words
pablum, maundy, histrionic, adamant, ascribe, verbiage, insouciant, erudite, gregarious, superfluous, banal, obdurate and 280 more...
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catinthehat345's List
compere, reticle, colophon, miasma, eldritch, raconteur, plectrum, poltroon, vestibular, pastiche, cravat, acumen and 179 more...
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To Learn
enervate, redolent, distaff, approbation, arrogate, bonhomie, palliate, calumny, panoply, contumacious, edify, dyspeptic and 188 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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1st cut
abeyance, abscission, abyss, accretion, acidulous, adulterate, adumbrate, aerie, ameliorate, anachoronistic, analgesia, anodyne and 315 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 889 more...
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Thomas's Words
argus-eyed, chasmophile, extirpate, aperitif, outre, repartee, schadenfreude, insouciant, joie de vivre, callipygian, cavil, ad hominem and 147 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sybarite.
JimPeters Thank you for tending to the problem of too many inappropriate proper name entries for "sybarite." I am so glad to find comments are taken seriously, and someone cares to correct problems.
I must add that in eliminating the capitalized examples, many good ones were also removed. In this case, the word is sometimes capitalized in its lexical usage, so some capped entries may be acceptable. If you google "rather a sybarite", you will see this. In addition, some of the capitalized examples were appropriate to the definition of the the word as "a native or inhabitant of Sybaris". Some examples of this would be desirable.
Unfortunately there is no substitute for reviewing entries. Apr 14, 2011
jeffazi voluptuary: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.
Oct 31, 2007