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Adjectives
1. (adj.) boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish;
  - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance;
  - “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) sybarite, voluptuary;
  - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous;
  - displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses;
  - “an epicurean banquet”; “enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs”; “Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence”; “a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) salutation, salute;
  - an act of honor or courteous recognition;
  - “a musical salute to the composer on his birthday”;

2. (n.) greeting, salutation;
  - (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting);

3. (n.) salutation;
  - word of greeting used to begin a letter;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) spectral;
  - of or relating to a spectrum;
  - “spectral colors”; “spectral analysis”;

2. (adj.) apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual;
  - resembling or characteristic of a phantom;
  - “a ghostly face at the window”; “a phantasmal presence in the room”; “spectral emanations”; “spiritual tappings at a seance”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin;
  - the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected;

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