voluptuous
Americanadjective
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full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment.
a voluptuous life.
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derived from gratification of the senses.
voluptuous pleasure.
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directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure.
voluptuous desires.
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sensuously pleasing or delightful.
voluptuous beauty.
adjective
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relating to, characterized by, or consisting of pleasures of the body or senses; sensual
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disposed, devoted, or addicted to sensual indulgence or luxurious pleasures
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provocative and sexually alluring, esp through shapeliness or fullness
a voluptuous woman
Related Words
See sensual.
Other Word Forms
- unvoluptuous adjective
- unvoluptuously adverb
- unvoluptuousness noun
- voluptuosity noun
- voluptuously adverb
- voluptuousness noun
Etymology
Origin of voluptuous
First recorded 1325–75; Middle English, from Latin voluptuōsus, equivalent to volupt(ās), “pleasure” + -ōsus -ous; -u- probably by association with sumptuōsus sumptuous
Example Sentences
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Here beauty is celebrated with voluptuous rapture, setting the mood for “Oh, Yemanja,” a mythic, watery mother’s prayer from Tania León’s opera “Scourge of Hyacinths.”
From Los Angeles Times
Nearby, a gorgeous photograph of a single gnarled tree amid green rolling hills becomes quietly apocalyptic, as if the voluptuous earth is preparing to shake off morbid memories.
From Los Angeles Times
We both possessed a flair for the dramatic, a love of cinema, and a voluptuous desire to be as much of ourselves as we could be.
From Los Angeles Times
Its narrative arc is as thoroughly well-documented as that voluptuous lobster spaghetti.
From Salon
Emin’s oeuvre has only ever orbited one thing: herself, in her many mournful, voluptuous, warty, wild and furious incarnations.
From New York Times
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