Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to, providing, or arising from sensual pleasure: synonym: sensuous.
  • adjective Having a curvaceous figure. Used of a woman or a woman's body.
  • adjective Devoted to or indulging in sensual pleasures.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, proceeding from, or inclined to sensual gratification: as, voluptuous tastes or habits.
  • Passed or spent in luxury or sensuality.
  • Contributing to sensual pleasure; exciting, or tending to excite, sensual desires and indulgence; sensual.
  • Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging in sensual gratifications.
  • Synonyms Carnal, Sensuous, etc. See sensual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
  • adjective Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Suggestive of or characterized by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.
  • adjective of a woman Curvaceous, sexy, full-figured.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  • adjective (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
  • adjective having strong sexual appeal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus, full of pleasure, from voluptās, pleasure; see wel- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin voluptuosus ("delightful"), from voluptās ("pleasure, delight"), from volup ("with pleasure").

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Examples

  • Or perhaps the weather decides to cloud over for several days straight and without so much sun the zucchinis and tomatoes, for the briefest moment, have decided to stop falling of the vine in voluptuous ripeness.

    Obscene Fist-Full of Basil Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Or perhaps the weather decides to cloud over for several days straight and without so much sun the zucchinis and tomatoes, for the briefest moment, have decided to stop falling of the vine in voluptuous ripeness.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Officer Robeson inquired, not sure if the woman was referring to the voluptuous breasts bulging from a shirt that strained to hold them in place, or the two young girls in the car, who were now silent and pretending not to be paying attention to their mother.

    The Punany Experience Jessica Holter 2010

  • Officer Robeson inquired, not sure if the woman was referring to the voluptuous breasts bulging from a shirt that strained to hold them in place, or the two young girls in the car, who were now silent and pretending not to be paying attention to their mother.

    The Punany Experience Jessica Holter 2010

  • Officer Robeson inquired, not sure if the woman was referring to the voluptuous breasts bulging from a shirt that strained to hold them in place, or the two young girls in the car, who were now silent and pretending not to be paying attention to their mother.

    The Punany Experience Jessica Holter 2010

  • Officer Robeson inquired, not sure if the woman was referring to the voluptuous breasts bulging from a shirt that strained to hold them in place, or the two young girls in the car, who were now silent and pretending not to be paying attention to their mother.

    The Punany Experience Jessica Holter 2010

  • Moreover, there are millions of people who think voluptuous is breathtaking and beautiful.

    Lacey Schwimmer Flu; Anna Trebunskaya Dances With Mark Dacascos 2008

  • I wasn’t “thick,” as they called voluptuous girls, I was invisible.

    Fired! Written 2006

  • I wasn’t “thick,” as they called voluptuous girls, I was invisible.

    Fired! Written 2006

  • I wasn’t “thick,” as they called voluptuous girls, I was invisible.

    Fired! Written 2006

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  • The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal... I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there."

    --Bram Stoker, (ch. 3, pg. 42)

    October 22, 2007

  • OOH! OOH! WORDIE PORN!!

    October 23, 2007

  • Seriously, I didn't realize Dracula was so erotic.

    October 23, 2007

  • Sex and death, baby. That's what it was all about.

    October 23, 2007

  • Well, as long as there's sex, I can do without the death part.

    October 23, 2007

  • Uhh... that's kind of the whole point, the death part... hence... Dracula? Remember?

    October 23, 2007

  • I was still stuck on voluptuous, I guess...

    October 23, 2007

  • I don't know, the "hard dents of two sharp teeth" kind of gives it away... ;)

    October 23, 2007

  • Yeah, but...you know...voluptuous!

    October 23, 2007

  • Why do some people add an m to this word? It drives me crazy when people say 'volumptuous'. It takes away the sexiness of the word and makes me think of cellulite. hehe

    November 12, 2007

  • People who add an 'm' should be neutered, or at least told off in a stern and serious way.

    November 12, 2007

  • c1374 CHAUCER Troylus IV. 1573 Love ne drof yow nought to don this dede, But lust voluptuous, and cowarde drede.

    July 3, 2008

  • "This effort on the part of the old feeling to combine and form a single element with the other, more recent, which had for its voluptuous object only the coloured surface, the flesh-pink bloom of a flower of the sea-shore, was one that often results simply in creating (in the chemical sense) a new body, which may last only a few moments."

    --Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, pp 179-180 of the Modern Library paperback edition

    February 13, 2009

  • "I remembered the distress that I felt when I saw her face subjected to an active scrutiny, like that of a painter preparing to make a sketch, entirely enveloped in it, and, doubtless on account of my presence, submitting to this contact without appearing to notice it, with a passivity that was perhaps clandestinely voluptuous."

    --The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 192 of the Modern Library paperback edition

    January 8, 2010

  • "However much she tried to conceal her awareness of it, it bathed her, enveloped her, vaporous, voluptuous, made her whole face glow."

    --The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 193 of the Modern Library paperback edition

    January 8, 2010

  • "And no doubt they ought to have forgone the voluptuous pleasure of that sacrilege, but it did not express the whole of their natures."

    --The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 348 of the Modern Library paperback edition

    January 20, 2010

  • "Alas, remembering my own agitation whenever I had caught sight of a girl who attracted me, sometimes when I had merely heard her spoken of without having seen her, my anxiety to look my best, to show myself to advantage, my cold sweats, I had only, to torture myself, to imagine the same voluptuous excitement in Albertine, as though by means of the apparatus which, after the visit of a certain practitioner who had shown some scepticism about her malady, my aunt Léonie had wished to see invented, and which would enable the doctor to undergo all the sufferings of his patient in order to understand better."

    --The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 734 of the Modern Library paperback edition

    February 18, 2010

  • I like my friends, like god gives my things, whether good honeymoon everyone can be my life wealth. Love your close relatives and friends, is really a good friendship, and beautiful. All in http://www.gagamatch.com

    July 8, 2011

  • I like my friends, like god gives my things, whether good honeymoon everyone can be my life wealth. Love your close relatives and friends, is really a good friendship, and beautiful. All in http://www.gagamatch.com

    July 8, 2011

  • 我喜欢我的朋友,喜欢上帝赋予我的东西,不管是好使坏都可以都是我一生的财富。爱自己的亲人和朋友,真是善良友爱,美丽。尽在http://www.gagamatch.com

    July 8, 2011

  • mhmm...luscious

    May 11, 2012