voluptuous
[vuh-luhp-choo-uh s]
- full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
- derived from gratification of the senses: voluptuous pleasure.
- directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure: voluptuous desires.
- sensuously pleasing or delightful: voluptuous beauty.
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Origin of voluptuous
Synonyms
See more synonyms for voluptuous on Thesaurus.com1. See sensual.
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Examples from the Web for voluptuous
Contemporary Examples
Was it Shakespeare, in mad pursuit of a lovely boy and that voluptuous Dark Lady?
Arriving at Bordelet's ciderie, we parked along a stone wall bedecked with vibrant, voluptuous yellow and red roses.
In escort circles, there are two brunette archetypes: the prim Audrey Hepburn type, and the voluptuous Ashley Dupré type.
Voluptuous and enjoyable are two words you might select to describe a Rick Hertzberg column.
He is there to stalk Bathory, a lesbian vampire queen with “a voluptuous feminine figure” and a “masculine strength.”
Historical Examples
He was as wicked as most of the race, fierce, violent, and voluptuous.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward IICharlotte Mary Yonge
He was too cowardly, too voluptuous to risk his tranquillity.
Therese RaquinEmile Zola
They despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
I have not schemed to win a pampered and voluptuous existence.
The Daltons, Volume II (of II)Charles James Lever
That sort of thing would only please a rich and voluptuous Turk.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
voluptuous
- relating to, characterized by, or consisting of pleasures of the body or senses; sensual
- disposed, devoted, or addicted to sensual indulgence or luxurious pleasures
- provocative and sexually alluring, esp through shapeliness or fullnessa voluptuous woman
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Word Origin
C14: from Latin voluptuōsus full of gratification, from voluptās pleasure
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Word Origin and History for voluptuous
adj.
late 14c., "of desires or appetites," from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuosus "full of pleasure, delightful," from voluptas "pleasure, delight," from volup "pleasurably," perhaps ultimately related to velle "to wish," from PIE *wol-/*wel- "be pleasing" (see will (v.)). Meaning "addicted to sensual pleasure" is recorded from mid-15c. Sense of "suggestive of sensual pleasure" is attested from 1816 (Byron); especially in reference to feminine beauty from 1839.
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