LUXURIATING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

luxuriating

verb

present participle of luxuriate

as in reveling

to enjoy something that is appealingly rich or relaxing He spent the morning luxuriating in his bed. She luxuriated in the beauties of the natural world.

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Recent Examples of luxuriating But on this voyage, its passengers are not luxuriating. — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026 Luckily for viewers, the film version of American Psycho presents the best aspects of the novel without luxuriating in book Bateman’s fevered misogyny. — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026 The lurch from declaring fears about Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel Peace Prize to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability. — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 As a girl, the narrator lived on the island with her father, a marine biologist, and spent many of her days in the ocean with her best friend, Arielle, luxuriating in the semi-wilderness. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Black Hills bucket-listing aside, time here is best spent tubing and fishing on the river, luxuriating in the infrared sauna, or listening to a doleful coyote song under a blanket of stars. — Ashlea Halpern, Time, 12 Mar. 2026 Paintings of the Chinese imperial court portray chows luxuriating in the role of companion dogs. — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Additionally, a host’s kitchen is not necessarily the space to engage in complicated cooking projects, and avoid luxuriating in a deep bathtub for hours (unless expressly discussed beforehand). — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 15 Feb. 2026 Rocky strains to convey his evolution from scrapping on the streets of Harlem to luxuriating in wealthy, starstruck domestic bliss. — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for luxuriating

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And on Wednesday, here in Atlanta, the Argentines turned a tourist attraction called Underground Atlanta into Underground Argentina, reveling with drums, chants, and dancing after beating England, 2-1, to earn a place in the championship game.

— Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2026
The Dodgers’ come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series clinched a series victory over the Yankees and produced the prevailing image of Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and their teammates reveling on the Yankee Stadium diamond.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026

Definition of reveling

Verb

The Toronto Blue Jays entered this season basking in the glow of a World Series run.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 July 2026
By the end of the night, the room full of sweaty bodies was left basking in the gift of Madonna, feeling just one small sliver of a wider moment that has gone on to completely transcend conventional pop expectation.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 14 July 2026