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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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 • Aug. 18, 2025
Its narrative arc is as thoroughly well-documented as that voluptuous lobster spaghetti.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024
Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on Friday in Monaco.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2023
"For instance, women in Bollywood films 30 years ago were more voluptuous than that globalised supermodel standard of beauty," Ms Vohra says.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023
She looked more like me and Juanita now, strong and voluptuous, but tired from working so hard.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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