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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VOLUP'TUOUS, a. [L. voluptuoosus.]
Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Soften'd with pleasure and voluptuous life.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous]
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, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed]
3: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to 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, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin voluptuosus, irregular from voluptas pleasure, from volup pleasurable; akin to Greek elpesthai to hope, Latin velle to wish — more at will Date: 14th century 1. a. full of delight or pleasure to the senses ; conducive to or arising from sensuous or sensual gratification ; luxurious <a voluptuous dance> <voluptuous ornamentation> <a voluptuous wine> b. suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form <voluptuous nudes> 2. given to or spent in enjoyment of luxury, pleasure, or sensual gratifications <a long and voluptuous holiday — Edmund Wilson> Synonyms: see sensuous • voluptuously adverb • voluptuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. of, tending to, occupied with, or derived from, sensuous or sensual pleasure. Derivatives: voluptuously adv. voluptuousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF voluptueux or L voluptuosus f. voluptas pleasure

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Music arose with its voluptuous swell. --Byron. Sink back into your voluptuous repose. --De Quincey. 2. Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications. ``The jolly and voluptuous livers.'' --Atterbury. Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. --Milton. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a woman as voluptuous, you mean that she has large breasts and hips and is considered attractive in a sexual way. ...a voluptuous, well-rounded lady with glossy black hair. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Luxurious, epicurean, sensual.

Moby Thesaurus

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