as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
an opulently furnished palace
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Recent Examples of opulently
On board, the common areas were opulently decorated with monumental staircases and picture windows overlooking a half-mile-long beach.
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Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
Jackie Jackson is opulently dressed for a football game, diamonds blazing on both hands, chandelier earrings, and black high heels under her trousers.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Noelann Bourgade, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
Jackie Jackson is opulently dressed for a football game, diamonds blazing on both hands, chandelier earrings, and black high heels under her trousers.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for opulently
Adverb
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To be in a place built—so very expensively—on fossil fuels, listening to endless green talk from an industry profiting off planetary destruction, is far more discombobulating than the astonishing shopping options.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The soundtrack boasts expensively familiar crowd-pleasers by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Billy Joel.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The camera lingers, luxuriously, on the dilapidated roadside.—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
14 Mar. 2026
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InStyle editors found and shared all the perfumes reportedly in Taylor Swift's rotation, from floral favorites to luxuriously warm and woody musks.—
Rebecca Norris,
InStyle,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Graphite leather is found behind the pillows but atop the nightstands and bar, too, and throw pillows and upholstery are richly textured.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Mar. 2026
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Named for the agricultural term describing how soil and climate shape flavor, Terroir blends jute and cotton to create a richly tactile surface inspired by tea-growing landscapes.—
Allison Hatfield,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Will Vicari’s wig and makeup design complete the extravagantly artificial fashion of the period.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Duvalier and his family lived extravagantly while Haiti suffered in poverty and violence.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The terry cloth—for those who fear its potential micro-scratch—is sumptuously soft and, perhaps most importantly, maintains its texture wash after wash.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
2 Feb. 2026
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They are sumptuously and seriously displayed.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Ironically, programs like this illustrate the bind in which both Mellon and the humanities writ large find themselves.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Cabin sizes skewed large and included a VIP configured 737 that came from the East Coast, and several Gulfstreams and Challengers.—
Doug Gollan,
Forbes.com,
12 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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But the show, a spin-off based on the 2009 live comedy-action flick of the same name, could never fully commit to the cool, funky groove voice actors Michael Jai White and Tommy Davidson comfortably established each episode.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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The boards are around 96 millimeters in length and can comfortably fit in your pocket.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Those include Mexico's Sinaloa cartel as well as the Cartel de los soles, or Cartel of the Suns, a term used to describe a loose network of corrupt, high-ranking military officers in neighboring Venezuela.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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Stearns watched the Mets blow sky high last season and decided to blow things up.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Opulently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opulently. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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