lush adj

1 produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]

2 characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" [syn: lavish, lucullan, plush, plushy]

3 full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: succulent] n : a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, soaker, souse]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Adjective

1. dense, teeming with life (usually used to describe vegetation)

   2006: Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times - "Some of the world's best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains."

2. luxuriant, delicious (usually used to describe food)

   That meal was lush! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!

3. In the context of "UK|slang}} beautiful, sexy

Lush may refer to:

• Lush (band), a British shoegazing band
• Lush (store), a cosmetics shop
• Lush Radio, the Student Radio station of the University of Leicester
• A person prone to drinking alcohol when in social situations (up to and including those known as Dick).
• The Lush programming language

abundant, adorable, adorned, agreeable, alcohol, ambrosial, befrilled, bibber, blooming, booze, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, bountiful, budge, bum, bursting, bursting out, chug, chug-a-lug, colored, copious, creative, dainty, decorated, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, deluxe, dense, drink, drunk, elaborate, elbow bender, embellished, embroidered, epicurean, exquisite, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, festooned, figurative, figured, firewater, florid, flourishing, flowery, fresh, fructiferous, fruitful, generous, ginhound, good, good to eat, good-tasting, green, grog, gross, gustable, gusty, heavenly, heavy, hooch, hooch hound, impenetrable, inebriate, juicy, jungled, jungly, lavish, likable, liquor, liquor up, luscious, lusher, luxuriant, luxurious, moist, mouth-watering, nectareous, nectarous, nice, of gourmet quality, opulent, ornate, overcharged, overgrown, overloaded, overrun, palatable, palatial, pleasing, plenteous, plentiful, plush, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profusive, proliferous, prolific, purple, raise the elbow, rank, rich, riotous, ripe, ritzy, rum hound, rummy, sapid, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seminal, sensual, soak, sot, souse, sponge, stew, succulent, sumptuous, superabundant, swarming, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tasty, teeming, thick, thriving, tipple, tippler, toothsome, uberous, unweeded, verdant, voluptuous, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, wino, yummy