Difference between Opulent and Sumptuous

What is the difference between Opulent and Sumptuous?

Opulent as an adjective is luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent while Sumptuous as an adjective is magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavour of debauchery

Opulent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent rich, sumptuous and extravagant

Sumptuous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavour of debauchery

Example sentence: I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

We hope you now know whether to use Opulent or Sumptuous in your sentence.

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