释义
[ vuh -luhp -choo-uh s ] SHOW IPA
/ vəˈlʌp tʃu əs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
derived from gratification of the senses: voluptuous pleasure.
directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure: voluptuous desires.
sensuously pleasing or delightful: voluptuous beauty.
Origin of voluptuous First recorded 1325–75; Middle English, from Latin voluptuōsus, equivalent to volupt(ās), “pleasure” + -ōsus -ous; -u- probably by association with sumptuōsus sumptuous
synonym study for voluptuous 1 . See sensual.
OTHER WORDS FROM voluptuous vo·lup·tu·ous·ly, adverb vo·lup·tu·ous·ness, vo·lup·tu·os·i·ty [vuh -luhp-choo-os -i-tee], /vəˌlʌp tʃuˈɒs ɪ ti/, noun un·vo·lup·tu·ous, adjective un·vo·lup·tu·ous·ly, adverb un·vo·lup·tu·ous·ness, noun
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Hannibal has been living like a voluptuous Carthaginian prince.
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She had a little shiver of voluptuous horror, remembering what she had endured and escaped.
Red Masquerade | Louis Joseph Vance
The humiliation of feeling herself weak was turning to rancour, tempered by their voluptuous pleasures.
Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert
He frequented the voluptuous and the frugal, the idle and the busy, the merchants and the men of learning.
It was a voluptuous sensation, such as one might experience when expiring in raptures in the bosom of our God.
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British Dictionary definitions for voluptuous adjective relating to, characterized by, or consisting of pleasures of the body or senses; sensual
disposed, devoted, or addicted to sensual indulgence or luxurious pleasures
provocative and sexually alluring, esp through shapeliness or fullness a voluptuous woman
Derived forms of voluptuous voluptuously , adverb voluptuousness , noun Word Origin for voluptuous C14: from Latin voluptuōsus full of gratification, from voluptās pleasure
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