Voluptuous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Vo*lup"tu*ous*ly}, adv. --
        {Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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