Voluptuous \Vo*lup"tu*ous\, a. [F. voluptueux, L. voluptuosus,
fr. voluptas pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully;
probably akin to Gr. ? to hope, ? hope, and to L. velle to
wish. See Voluntary.]
1. Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the
senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification;
exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
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Music arose with its voluptuous swell. --Byron.
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Sink back into your voluptuous repose. --De Quincey.
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2. Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging
to excess in sensual gratifications. "The jolly and
voluptuous livers." --Atterbury.
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Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluptuous
adj 1: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot
mama"; "a voluptuous woman" [syn: juicy, luscious,
red-hot]
2: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing
curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a
curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty,
buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie,
sonsy, well-endowed]
3: furnishing gratification of 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" [syn: epicurean,
luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "voluptuous":
Cyrenaic, abandoned, alluring, amorous, appealing, appetitive,
attractive, beautiful, bent on pleasure, bewitching, built, busty,
buxom, captivating, carnal, charming, curvaceous, delicious,
delightful, desirable, dissipated, dissolute, enchanting, engaging,
enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, epicurean,
erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, excessive, exquisite,
eye-filling, fascinating, fetching, fleshly, gamic, gorgeous,
heart-robbing, hedonistic, heterosexual, indulgent, intriguing,
inviting, irresistible, libidinal, lovely, luscious, lush,
luxurious, luxury-loving, nuptial, oversexed, pleasure-bent,
pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, potent, prepossessing,
procreative, ravishing, seductive, self-indulgent, sensual,
sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, shapely, straight,
sybaritic, sybaritical, taking, tantalizing, tempting, thrilling,
titillative, unchaste, undersexed, venereal, voluptuary, wanton,
well-built, well-proportioned, well-stacked, winning, winsome,
witching
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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