Voluptuous definitions

və-lŭp'cho͝o-əs
The definition of voluptuous is something expensive, luxurious or sensual that excites your senses.

An example of voluptuous is a bed with satin sheets.

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The definition of voluptuous is a full, shapely woman's figure.

An example of voluptuous was Marilyn Monroe’s body.

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Relating to, providing, or arising from sensual pleasure.
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Having a curvaceous figure. Used of a woman or a woman's body.
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Devoted to or indulging in sensual pleasures.
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Full of, producing, or characterized by sensual delights and pleasures; sensual.
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Fond of or directed toward luxury, elegance, and the pleasures of the senses.
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Arising from sensual gratification.
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Suggesting or expressing sensual pleasure or gratification.
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Sexually attractive because of a full, shapely figure.
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Suggestive of or characterized by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.

The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body, tantalizing me with their luxury.

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(of a woman) Curvaceous, sexy, full-figured.

Her flowing raven hair contrasted her creamy white complexion, her amber eyes like those of a cat, the low neckline of her bodice emphasised her plump, voluptuous figure.

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Origin of voluptuous

Middle English from Old French voluptueux from Latin voluptuōsus full of pleasure from voluptās pleasure wel-1 in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • Now that he'd tasted the fires that burned in her voluptuous body, no other woman could ever so satisfy him.

  • The voluptuous brunette was pert and sophisticated.

  • Beside or behind the voluptuous or intellectual attractions of beauty and culture, she had about her the fresher charm of a fearless and frank simplicity, a genuine and enduring pleasure in small and harmless things no less than in such as were neither.

  • Through these, and through less perfect examples, was exhibited an amazing magnificence of fancy, at present insufficiently under control, and a voluptuous pomp of imagery, tending to an over-sweetness.

  • If we may trust the evidence of Zosimus, from the end of the year 388 Theodosius resigned himself to gluttony and voluptuous living, from which he was only roused by the news that in the Western empire Arbogast had slain the young Emperor Valentinian and set up the grammarian Eugenius in his stead (May 15, 392).

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