VOLUPTUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voluptuary mean? 

• VOLUPTUARY (noun)
  The noun VOLUPTUARY has 1 sense:

1. a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

  Familiarity information: VOLUPTUARY used as a noun is very rare.

• VOLUPTUARY (adjective)
  The adjective VOLUPTUARY has 1 sense:

1. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

  Familiarity information: VOLUPTUARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLUPTUARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sybarite; voluptuary

Hypernyms ("voluptuary" is a kind of...):

sensualist (a person who enjoys sensuality)

Derivation:

voluptuary (displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses)

• VOLUPTUARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

Synonyms:

epicurean; luxuriant; luxurious; sybaritic; voluptuary; voluptuous

Context example:

a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness

Similar:

indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)

Derivation:

voluptuary (a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses)

 Context examples 

With the face of an ascetic, he was, in all the failing blood of him, a frank voluptuary.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)