lushadjective
uk/lʌʃ/us/lʌʃ/lush adjective (PLANTS)
A lush area has a lot of green, healthy plants, grass, and trees:
lush green valleys
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Fertile or infertile land
- barren
- bread basket
- cultivable
- denude
- exuberant
- fallow
- fertile
- fertility
- granary
- hospitable
- hostile
- infertile
- luscious
- luxuriant
- marginal land
- overgrown
- rank
- rich
- sterile
- verdant
lush adjective (PLEASING TO SENSES)
very attractive to look at, taste, smell, etc.:
the lush sound of the orchestra
the lush taste of fudge ice cream
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Expensive & luxurious
- costly
- delicacy
- deluxe
- exclusive
- executive
- expense
- expensive
- grand
- grandly
- luxurious
- no expense is spared idiom
- opulent
- plush
- premium-rate
- priceless
- sumptuous
- swish
- tony
- unaffordable
- white elephant
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lush adjective (GOOD)
UK informal good or, of a person, attractive:
We had a lush time on my birthday.
He's so lush.
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Attractive
- a sight for sore eyes idiom
- adorable
- aesthetic
- alluring
- angelic
- disarm
- distinguished
- dreamy
- easy
- elegant
- noble
- not be just a pretty face idiom
- ornamental
- photogenic
- photograph
- voluptuous
- well built
- winning
- winsome
- zaftig
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lushly
adverb uk/ˈlʌʃ.li/us/ˈlʌʃ.li/
lushness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈlʌʃ.nəs/us/ˈlʌʃ.nəs/
lushnoun [ C ]
uk/lʌʃ/us/lʌʃ/slanga person who regularly drinks too much alcohol:
She's a lush by all accounts.
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- muzzy
- sloshed
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- whacked
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