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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Voluptuous \Vo*lup"tu*ous\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
voluptuous
adjective
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
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