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# sumptuous

«sumptuous» in Mova's school dictionary: **very rich, costly and grand, with the best of everything:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more sumptuous, most sumptuous)

### meaning for a pupil

Sumptuous means very rich, costly and grand, with the best of everything: a sumptuous feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumptuous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a king's banquet or a grand palace is sumptuous, meaning splendid and costly

### examples

- Another feast was prepared, more sumptuous than the first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumptuous/#x1)
- The King ordered a sumptuous banquet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumptuous/#x2)
- They had a sumptuous meal of roast meat and cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumptuous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sumptuous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sumptuous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.