Sybarite vs Sybaritic - What's the difference?
sybarite | sybaritic |
A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
* 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
* 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
Of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent
Having the character of or dedicated to excessive luxury
As a noun sybarite
is a person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.As a adjective sybaritic is
of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent.sybarite
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
- Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.