


Choose Your Words between Similar Words : luxuriant vs. luxurious. Caught between words? Make the right choice.
Choose between: luxuriant vs. luxurious
No doubt advertising affects language. Where would we be without the free gift, new and improved, or supersize? (Perhaps writing more grammatically and eating more healthily…) In yet another attempt to reduce English to features and selling points, advertisers often use luxuriant to describe their products or services:
Luxuriant Cracked Heel Repair
Luxuriant Christmas Tree Wallpaper
Miralux Luxuriant Mattress
Problem is luxuriant means lush growth; thick and rich. As in a luxuriant growth of leaves in the spring. What those advertisers really want is luxurious, as in self-indulgent; comfort, elegance, or enjoyment in the extreme:
Mediterranea … is a luxurious community situated adjacent to the sea, boasting stunning views of the Mediterranean.
This luxurious penthouse at the One Hyde Park development in the Knightsbridge of London just sold for a record-breaking £140 million or $220 million.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy orders brand new, luxurious presidential jet to rival Air Force One
As a society, we tolerate a lot of bent or outright broken language rules in advertising. We tune a lot of it out, anyway. But the careful writer should not emulate advertising-speak and should be wary of copying its word usage. Using luxuriant for luxurious is very much considered an error and is to be avoided.
luxuriant
You can use the adjective luxuriant to describe something really luxurious or full and lush. If you walk through a dense forest after it rains, it’s really luxuriant with green plants overgrowing the paths. Continue reading…
luxurious
The adjective luxurious describes something that is of very high quality or expensive taste, like your luxurious living room filled with the softest rugs and gorgeous furniture hand-crafted in Italy. Continue reading…
