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voluptuous

[ vuh-luhp-choo-uhs ]

adjective

  1. full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment:

    a voluptuous life.

  2. derived from gratification of the senses:

    voluptuous pleasure.

  3. directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure:

    voluptuous desires.

  4. sensuously pleasing or delightful:

    voluptuous beauty.



voluptuous

/ vəˈlʌptjʊəs /

adjective

  1. relating to, characterized by, or consisting of pleasures of the body or senses; sensual
  2. disposed, devoted, or addicted to sensual indulgence or luxurious pleasures
  3. provocative and sexually alluring, esp through shapeliness or fullness

    a voluptuous woman

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • voˈluptuousness, noun
  • voˈluptuously, adverb
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Other Words From

  • vo·luptu·ous·ly adverb
  • vo·luptu·ous·ness vo·lup·tu·os·i·ty [v, uh, -luhp-choo-, os, -i-tee], noun
  • unvo·luptu·ous adjective
  • unvo·luptu·ous·ly adverb
  • unvo·luptu·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of voluptuous1

First recorded 1325–75; Middle English, from Latin voluptuōsus, equivalent to volupt(ās), “pleasure” + -ōsus -ous; -u- probably by association with sumptuōsus sumptuous
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Word History and Origins

Origin of voluptuous1

C14: from Latin voluptuōsus full of gratification, from voluptās pleasure
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Synonym Study

See sensual.
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Example Sentences

Babitz would have more adventures than most, growing up fast and voluptuous in Hollywood, reveling in almost every form of excess from sex to drugs to booze and still more sex — and never feeling the least bit of shame over any of it.

Sandra Chen Weinstein, who also supplies a voluptuous close-up of a red-fleshed peach, photographs multiple sets of stylized lips projected on a building.

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.

It has an enormous dose of estrogen in it, leading to many voluptuous prisoners in New York state prisons.

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.

California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.

Her eyes, too, had a curious hard opaque look, as if the old voluptuous fires had burned out; and she seemed ever on her guard.

But the tender lines of Lucy's voluptuous figure covered a marble heart.

They absolutely revel in the most voluptuous indulgence of the nil admirari.

All three had brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.

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