voluptuous
adjUS /vəˈlʌp.t͡ʃu.əs/
Etymology From Middle French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus (“delightful”), from voluptās (“pleasure, delight”), from volup (“with pleasure”).
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Characterized or marked by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.
- The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body.
- Thus we lay, whilst a voluptuous languor possest, and still maintain'd us motionless and fast locked in one another's arms1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
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- It was upon riches he founded his claim to importance; riches could alone supply the enjoyments of luxury; those voluptuous pleasures upon which the sensualist refines, and without which life appears but a mere vegetative existence, unproductive of enjoyment.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 24:
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Of a person Curvaceous and sexually attractive.
- The low neckline of her bodice emphasized her plump, voluptuous figure.
- She was very dark skinned and has a voluptuous figure that she showed off with her stylish purple dress.2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 35:
- Synonyms
- sensual, luxurious, sexy, built, buxom, chubby, curvaceous, curvesome, curvy, embonpoint, full-figured, juicy, luscious, pneumatic, red-hot, Rubenesque, sonsy, thicc, thick, toothsome, voluptuous, well-endowed, well-proportioned, zaftig
- Antonyms
- slender
- Derived terms
- voluptuously, voluptuousness
- Related terms
- beautiful woman
- Hypernyms
- overweight, sexy, shapely
- Hyponyms
- busty, callipygian