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adjective lʌʃləʃ 1(of vegetation, especially grass) growing luxuriantly. lush greenery and cultivated fields Example sentencesExamples - The reflected lighting is seductive, the flowers lush, the service charming, the prices calming.
- The problem is that the water utility company uses lots of electricity to pump the water that's used to keep lawns lush and green all summer.
- It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
- From the low angle I was lying at, I could see out the window, to lush green trees across the street.
- Kings Park itself is a city park in which lush cultivated landscapes blend with bushland.
- There are those advertisement hoardings all across the boundary line and it still is that lush green outfield.
- From dazzling mountains and hillsides to lush, subtropical grounds, these hip-hotels offer the perfect respite for both young and old.
- I can see those flags flying in the breeze and that lush green of ball park grass, so much brighter than anything I could ever get in my own back yard.
- The forsaken lands had been her home for so long, she had forgotten how lush and green it was.
- The sky above is clear and blue, the grasslands lush and green, but there is no birdsong, no buzz of insects, no sign of anything living but the ones walking with him.
- At the same time, they benefit from regular feedings with an organic fertilizer, which help keep the plants lush and healthy.
- These, coupled with the glossy green foliage which looks fresh and lush all year round, make them one of the most decorative species for situations with low light levels.
- But the grass was too lush to burn of its own accord.
- Here you can go on a ride where you start from the sea, ride up to hill top lakes, and fly down rocky trails to lush green valleys.
- Some of the filming was done in Scotland not far from where my cousins live and I can confirm that it really is that lush.
- It was strange to her how much the scenery had changed, from eerie and dismal to lush and dark.
- Creatures and beings of every nature and species come to live in that lush and green country.
- Scorched sands and wood turned to lush green grass and darkly-stained timber.
- Most of the trees and grass, splintered and singed 10 years ago, have grown back to lush green.
- The sky is gun metal, casting a surreal light on to lush green fields, the sea is calm before us and Arran looms up solid and beautiful across the Kilbrannan Sound.
Synonyms luxuriant, rich, abundant, superabundant, profuse, exuberant, riotous, prolific, teeming, flourishing, thriving, vigorous dense, thick, rank, rampant, overgrown, jungle-like verdant, green informal jungly - 1.1 Very rich and providing great sensory pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples - The first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway.
- With lush visuals and beautiful colours to savour, gamers were introduced to the two tiered system.
- Many of the qualities like the extravagant detailing, lush colours and fine handwork are demonstrated in the exquisitely crafted shades of the era.
- With a throng of guests adding lush orchestration to most of the tracks, it is Campbell's understated wispy vocal that ties the tunes together.
- But before their lush colours and cool cuts could really penetrate their way into your psyche, Jack The Rubber's collection exploded onto the catwalk.
- This is a warm bath of lush colours and pretty voices with all the edge and darkness successfully buried for a middle-of-the-road film experience.
- Whirling dancers keep going after Nyman's lush music stops or, in another section, they begin patterns before the score starts up again.
- The lush colour and floral background interact with the figure in homage to another individual who impressed Argaw with his concern for the natural environment.
- A combination of lush colours and fine detail make for a memorable set of images.
- The exhibition is a feast of eye candy, a lush banquet of colour, depth and intensity.
- Anyway, my attention had been drawn to the paleness of our normally lush green carpet the other day and I realized, the fading was actually a layer of white cat hair and possibly dust.
- Architecture history buffs used to spend hours inexpertly photographing lush colour pictures from coffee table books.
- The picture quality is superb, punctuated by the lush colors of the gang's neighborhood pub and the panache of their respective flats.
- The widescreen is essential for a film with so much rich landscape detail; and the colors are particularly lush and varied throughout.
- Salvador is filmed in rich colours - dark, lush reds, or deep and serious greens, or inky semi-blackness.
- Colors are lush, rich, and warm while never appearing overly saturated.
- It is an even more satisfying record than its predecessor, eccentrically lush and rich production making the most of an already impressive clutch of new songs.
- Small digital prints with religious images, words and textual extracts rendered in lush textures and rich hues address a broad range of clearly spelt out themes.
- Her legs didn't feel like working and gave out on her; her lean body became sprawled on the lush carpet of her living room.
- As well as his vibrant use of colour, lush Bernstein score and emotive plot, Haynes has managed to bring together a quality set of actors.
- Recent developments in recording processes had resulted in rock albums becoming more lush, with a rich, textured sound.
Synonyms luxurious, luxury, deluxe, sumptuous, grand, palatial, opulent, lavish, elaborate, extravagant, fancy informal plush, ritzy, classy, posh, swanky British informal swish North American informal swank
2British informal Sexually attractive. Example sentencesExamples - ‘You are the most beautiful woman in the world,’ he said huskily as his eyes traveled up and down her lush body.
- An auburn-haired stunner with a body straight out of a dream, Nikki Nova's lush curves are a luscious dollop of endlessly enticing eye candy.
- This woman was all curves and surprises, and I immediately began imagining the secrets that lush body probably cradled.
- She's almost entirely in shadow, but he can see the lush curves of her naked body, the cascading waves of her hair.
- He wanted her more than anything and the sight of her lush naked body made his passion rise for her immediately.
- I'd had my suspicions when I'd seen the man looking over the girl's lush body from time to time during the day.
- 2.1 Very good or impressive.
I had some really lush pressies
Derivatives adverb Much of the action is lushly set in Southeast Asia, where the pair are captured and raised separately until, after a series of coincidences, they face each other in an arena fight. Example sentencesExamples - The album is a lushly produced, 11-song disc that captures the group's British-influenced pop with loving attention.
- Of course, the entire movie is lushly detailed in gorgeous shots, like the shaving-mirror triptych revealing the three of them in the bath.
- Up the road, Paul's grapes hang lushly from the vine.
- But when the guns have fallen silent, evil in its many guises - some of them lushly beguiling - will still prowl among us.
nounˈlʌʃnəsˈləʃnəs There are two kinds of false lashes: full ones (the kind you apply to your whole lashline) and individual lashes (to add lushness where you want it). Example sentencesExamples - In soft muted shades of green and white or rich tones of hot and soft shades of green and pink, caladiums deliver an unbeatable luxuriance of lushness and tropical color.
- Pied ancient sculptures were whitened and the lushness of literature turned into Classicist sterility.
- There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave.
- Those small moments of relative lushness are magnified, become powerful and touching, in their drab context.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete lash 'soft, lax', from Old French lasche 'lax', by association with luscious. Rhymes ablush, blush, brush, crush, flush, gush, hush, hush-hush, mush, plush, rush, shush, slush, thrush, tush noun lʌʃləʃ informal A heavy drinker, especially a habitual one. a lush who doesn't make very much sense most of the time Example sentencesExamples - How about jumping out on the lushes coming out of the pub?
- Attached to the desk of animation director Kim Jun-bok is a hand-drawn picture of a six pack of Duff Beer, the preferred brand of Springfield's ludicrous lushes.
- If you're one of the lushes requiring greater quantities of beer, go visit a distributorship.
- For those who are bothered by movies in which main characters are lushes, it's worth noting that both Denny and Terry drink less the farther the film progresses.
- Little did they know, that some of the biggest lushes in the whole town were already inside, bawling away to ‘O come all ye faithful’.
- Stuck in this miserable world with bloodsuckers and smelly lushes with guns?
- Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
- The man was dressed in a brown leather beaten trench coat and had a matching hat which was being tossed out at him by a gang of other ruthless lushes.
- He's a bitter lush who's caught drunk driving early in the film and almost sent to prison.
- But to me, it seems perfectly normal - as the age range of the boys and girls is actually between 18 and 50, and it seems that we're all terrible lushes.
- By now, the reader may have guessed that he's becoming a bit of a lush.
- Therefore they chose to treat us of-age lushes like caged animals and fenced us in a little corner in the back of the club by the washrooms.
- My first thought was that he was implying I was a lush.
- He was portrayed in that movie as sort of being a man who was a lush.
- My friends being lushes, they also drink when anyone makes jazz hands or says something particularly stupid, which of course necessitates frequent refills.
- Yes, Brigitte is a total lush; yes, Ryan is rude; yes, Charo is incoherent.
- It may simply be that you are the biggest lushes in the party, but the rule of villa holidays is: ‘Do not do anything that might incur the wrath of one or more of the women.’
- Diet can alter how we taste, but unless you're a chain-smoking lush who eats nothing but red meat and garlic, it shouldn't be chronic.
- Clenched and brooding, churning with both rage and self-loathing, his Tomas is one of the most realistic lushes ever to reach the screen.
- The foremost of TV's new generation of female lushes, this millionairess drinks vodka Martinis for breakfast and will have a fifth in her veins by lunch.
Synonyms drunkard, drunk, inebriate, imbiber, tippler, sot, heavy drinker, hard drinker, serious drinker, problem drinker
verb lʌʃləʃ [with object]dated, informal Make (someone) drunk. Mr Hobart got so lushed up he was spilling drinks down his shirt Example sentencesExamples - Some lushed up stiff started a fight with me halfway through the night, so I did what any immortal would do… I broke a bottle over the bar and shoved it into my own belly.
- He calls everybody ‘sham’ and he now refers to drinking as ‘lushing’.
- Instead of spending the day lushing it up before their departure for Edinburgh, the Boks spent their last day in Marseilles hard at work.
- Three shuttle buses will scuttle those too lushed to sashay thru the city on their way toward this exclusive after party.
Origin Late 18th century: perhaps a humorous use of lush1. adjectiveləSHləʃ 1(of vegetation) growing luxuriantly. lush greenery and cultivated fields Example sentencesExamples - The sky is gun metal, casting a surreal light on to lush green fields, the sea is calm before us and Arran looms up solid and beautiful across the Kilbrannan Sound.
- The problem is that the water utility company uses lots of electricity to pump the water that's used to keep lawns lush and green all summer.
- The forsaken lands had been her home for so long, she had forgotten how lush and green it was.
- But the grass was too lush to burn of its own accord.
- The sky above is clear and blue, the grasslands lush and green, but there is no birdsong, no buzz of insects, no sign of anything living but the ones walking with him.
- From the low angle I was lying at, I could see out the window, to lush green trees across the street.
- There are those advertisement hoardings all across the boundary line and it still is that lush green outfield.
- Most of the trees and grass, splintered and singed 10 years ago, have grown back to lush green.
- Kings Park itself is a city park in which lush cultivated landscapes blend with bushland.
- It was strange to her how much the scenery had changed, from eerie and dismal to lush and dark.
- I can see those flags flying in the breeze and that lush green of ball park grass, so much brighter than anything I could ever get in my own back yard.
- Here you can go on a ride where you start from the sea, ride up to hill top lakes, and fly down rocky trails to lush green valleys.
- Scorched sands and wood turned to lush green grass and darkly-stained timber.
- The reflected lighting is seductive, the flowers lush, the service charming, the prices calming.
- At the same time, they benefit from regular feedings with an organic fertilizer, which help keep the plants lush and healthy.
- From dazzling mountains and hillsides to lush, subtropical grounds, these hip-hotels offer the perfect respite for both young and old.
- These, coupled with the glossy green foliage which looks fresh and lush all year round, make them one of the most decorative species for situations with low light levels.
- Creatures and beings of every nature and species come to live in that lush and green country.
- It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies.
- Some of the filming was done in Scotland not far from where my cousins live and I can confirm that it really is that lush.
Synonyms luxuriant, rich, abundant, superabundant, profuse, exuberant, riotous, prolific, teeming, flourishing, thriving, vigorous - 1.1 Very rich and providing great sensory pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples - Salvador is filmed in rich colours - dark, lush reds, or deep and serious greens, or inky semi-blackness.
- Small digital prints with religious images, words and textual extracts rendered in lush textures and rich hues address a broad range of clearly spelt out themes.
- But before their lush colours and cool cuts could really penetrate their way into your psyche, Jack The Rubber's collection exploded onto the catwalk.
- With a throng of guests adding lush orchestration to most of the tracks, it is Campbell's understated wispy vocal that ties the tunes together.
- Many of the qualities like the extravagant detailing, lush colours and fine handwork are demonstrated in the exquisitely crafted shades of the era.
- The picture quality is superb, punctuated by the lush colors of the gang's neighborhood pub and the panache of their respective flats.
- The widescreen is essential for a film with so much rich landscape detail; and the colors are particularly lush and varied throughout.
- The first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway.
- The exhibition is a feast of eye candy, a lush banquet of colour, depth and intensity.
- Anyway, my attention had been drawn to the paleness of our normally lush green carpet the other day and I realized, the fading was actually a layer of white cat hair and possibly dust.
- With lush visuals and beautiful colours to savour, gamers were introduced to the two tiered system.
- As well as his vibrant use of colour, lush Bernstein score and emotive plot, Haynes has managed to bring together a quality set of actors.
- Architecture history buffs used to spend hours inexpertly photographing lush colour pictures from coffee table books.
- This is a warm bath of lush colours and pretty voices with all the edge and darkness successfully buried for a middle-of-the-road film experience.
- It is an even more satisfying record than its predecessor, eccentrically lush and rich production making the most of an already impressive clutch of new songs.
- Whirling dancers keep going after Nyman's lush music stops or, in another section, they begin patterns before the score starts up again.
- The lush colour and floral background interact with the figure in homage to another individual who impressed Argaw with his concern for the natural environment.
- A combination of lush colours and fine detail make for a memorable set of images.
- Her legs didn't feel like working and gave out on her; her lean body became sprawled on the lush carpet of her living room.
- Recent developments in recording processes had resulted in rock albums becoming more lush, with a rich, textured sound.
- Colors are lush, rich, and warm while never appearing overly saturated.
Synonyms luxurious, luxury, deluxe, sumptuous, grand, palatial, opulent, lavish, elaborate, extravagant, fancy - 1.2 (of a woman) very sexually attractive.
Marianne, with her lush body and provocative green eyes Example sentencesExamples - He wanted her more than anything and the sight of her lush naked body made his passion rise for her immediately.
- This woman was all curves and surprises, and I immediately began imagining the secrets that lush body probably cradled.
- An auburn-haired stunner with a body straight out of a dream, Nikki Nova's lush curves are a luscious dollop of endlessly enticing eye candy.
- ‘You are the most beautiful woman in the world,’ he said huskily as his eyes traveled up and down her lush body.
- I'd had my suspicions when I'd seen the man looking over the girl's lush body from time to time during the day.
- She's almost entirely in shadow, but he can see the lush curves of her naked body, the cascading waves of her hair.
Origin Late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete lash ‘soft, lax’, from Old French lasche ‘lax’, by association with luscious. nounləʃləSH informal A heavy drinker, especially a habitual one. Example sentencesExamples - Attached to the desk of animation director Kim Jun-bok is a hand-drawn picture of a six pack of Duff Beer, the preferred brand of Springfield's ludicrous lushes.
- Little did they know, that some of the biggest lushes in the whole town were already inside, bawling away to ‘O come all ye faithful’.
- Stuck in this miserable world with bloodsuckers and smelly lushes with guns?
- My first thought was that he was implying I was a lush.
- Yes, Brigitte is a total lush; yes, Ryan is rude; yes, Charo is incoherent.
- Therefore they chose to treat us of-age lushes like caged animals and fenced us in a little corner in the back of the club by the washrooms.
- Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
- He's a bitter lush who's caught drunk driving early in the film and almost sent to prison.
- The foremost of TV's new generation of female lushes, this millionairess drinks vodka Martinis for breakfast and will have a fifth in her veins by lunch.
- It may simply be that you are the biggest lushes in the party, but the rule of villa holidays is: ‘Do not do anything that might incur the wrath of one or more of the women.’
- For those who are bothered by movies in which main characters are lushes, it's worth noting that both Denny and Terry drink less the farther the film progresses.
- He was portrayed in that movie as sort of being a man who was a lush.
- The man was dressed in a brown leather beaten trench coat and had a matching hat which was being tossed out at him by a gang of other ruthless lushes.
- My friends being lushes, they also drink when anyone makes jazz hands or says something particularly stupid, which of course necessitates frequent refills.
- By now, the reader may have guessed that he's becoming a bit of a lush.
- If you're one of the lushes requiring greater quantities of beer, go visit a distributorship.
- How about jumping out on the lushes coming out of the pub?
- Clenched and brooding, churning with both rage and self-loathing, his Tomas is one of the most realistic lushes ever to reach the screen.
- But to me, it seems perfectly normal - as the age range of the boys and girls is actually between 18 and 50, and it seems that we're all terrible lushes.
- Diet can alter how we taste, but unless you're a chain-smoking lush who eats nothing but red meat and garlic, it shouldn't be chronic.
Synonyms drunkard, drunk, inebriate, imbiber, tippler, sot, heavy drinker, hard drinker, serious drinker, problem drinker
verbləʃləSH [with object]dated, informal Make (someone) drunk. Mr. Hobart got so lushed up he was spilling drinks down his shirt Example sentencesExamples - Three shuttle buses will scuttle those too lushed to sashay thru the city on their way toward this exclusive after party.
- He calls everybody ‘sham’ and he now refers to drinking as ‘lushing’.
- Instead of spending the day lushing it up before their departure for Edinburgh, the Boks spent their last day in Marseilles hard at work.
- Some lushed up stiff started a fight with me halfway through the night, so I did what any immortal would do… I broke a bottle over the bar and shoved it into my own belly.
Origin Late 18th century: perhaps a humorous use of lush. |