Definition of "sybaritic"
sybaritic
adjective
comparative more sybaritic, superlative most sybaritic
Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
Quotations
His belly is a Ceſterne of receit, / A grand Confounder of demulcing Meate. / A Sabariticke Sea, a depthleſſe Gulfe, / A ſenceleſſe Vulture, a corroding VVolfe.Republished with modernized spelling in Henry Hutton (1842 September) Edward F[rancis] Rimbault, editor, Follie’s Anatomie: Or Satyres & Satyricall Epigrams […], London: […] [T. Richards] for the Percy Society, →OCLC, page 22.
1619, Henry Hutton, Follie’s Anatomie. Or Satyres and Satyricall Epigrams with a Compendious History of Ixion’s Wheele. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Mathew Walbanke, […], signature B4, verso
Mike took a slow sybaritic sip. "We do use liquor. A few of us—Saul, myself, Sven, some others—like it. I've learned to let it have just a little effect, then hold it, and gain a euphoric growing-closer much like trance without having to withdraw."
1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter XXXVI, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, page 392
He [David Hershkovits] loves to sleep late, he loves to entertain, he's an amazing cook. He's such a joyful, celebratory, sybaritic person.
2017 October 16, Alexandra Schwartz, quoting Jennifer Egan, “Jennifer Egan’s Travels Through Time”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., archived from the original on 2022-12-16