Palatial

pəˈleɪʃəl

adjective

resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid

The word 'palatial' comes from the noun 'palace', representing something that is grand, lavish, and luxurious, like a palace itself.

The air was muggy and oppressive, yet still a welcome relief from the miasma of sweat, shit, and sickness that filled the inside of Yezzan's palatial pavilion.

George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Wayne 's father owned half of the country's third- largest electronic games company, and the Stukeys had a modestly palatial home in Bel Air.

King, Stephen

The Stand

When they were going to bed, his accumulated anger came out in a chilly: "See here, my girl! All this His Lordship, Her Grace, Old England, palatial mansion stuff is fine—I've enjoyed it—but you're letting it dazzle you. You're letting Lockert be a whole lot too flirtatious. Little good home bullying!"

Sinclair Lewis

Dodsworth

We feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white-tiled "convenience."

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

The palatial buildings which lined their way spread out until they resembled ivy-covered country houses on huge, run-to-riot lawns, and Eddie realized they had entered what had once been a very ritzy neighborhood indeed.

Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)

In those palatial surroundings of dazzling splendour I, who had lived my best life among indentured labourers, felt myself a complete rustic.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

As he left the room the corridors of the palace were suddenly filled with the shriek of a newly-affianced princess, who had awoken from a dream of her wedding-night in which her marital bed had suddenly and unaccountably become awash in rancid yellow liquid; afterwards, she made inquiries, and when she learned the prophetic truth of her dream, resolved never to reach puberty while Zafar was alive, so that she could stay in her palatial bedroom and avoid the foul-smelling horror of his weakness.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children: A Novel

Near Cambridge Circus are the palatial offices of Laurence Murray—Lucky-Folk-Bet-With-Laury Murray—one of the biggest bookmakers in London.

Josephine Tey

The Man in the Queue

The air was muggy and oppressive, yet still a welcome relief from the miasma of sweat, shit, and sickness that filled the inside of Yezzan's palatial pavilion.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

It was a large window, forming part of the long façade of a gilt and palatial public-house; it was the part reserved for respectable dining, and labelled "Restaurant."

G. K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown