Jamie Fehr

Opulent adj

Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish: the opulent comfort of a limousine.

I learned this word from my educated spanish friend, Dani. We were walking around Stockholm one fine afternoon when he decided he wanted to practice his english and share with me a little about the royal palace in Stockholm. He told me that he felt that it was very opulent. I said “what?” He said “Opulento?” I said I didn’t know what he was talking about.

He then proceeded to give me the definition you’ve already read and I told him that I didn’t doubt that opulent was a word I just didn’t know it. So when I got home I looked it up and sure enough, it’s in the dictionary, just like the word schadenfreude, but I’ll save that one for another week.