VOLUPTUOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voluptuous mean? 

• VOLUPTUOUS (adjective)
  The adjective VOLUPTUOUS has 3 senses:

1. having strong sexual appeal

2. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

3. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

  Familiarity information: VOLUPTUOUS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLUPTUOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having strong sexual appeal

Synonyms:

juicy; luscious; lush; red-hot; toothsome; voluptuous

Context example:

a toothsome blonde in a tight dress

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

Derivation:

voluptuousness (the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

Synonyms:

bosomy; busty; buxom; curvaceous; curvy; full-bosomed; sonsie; sonsy; stacked; voluptuous; well-endowed

Context example:

a curvy young woman in a tight dress

Similar:

shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)

Derivation:

voluptuousness (the quality of having a well-rounded body)

Sense 3

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:

voluptuousness (the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses)

 Context examples 

She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In each of the sisters there was one trait of the mother—and only one; the thin and pallid elder daughter had her parent's Cairngorm eye: the blooming and luxuriant younger girl had her contour of jaw and chin—perhaps a little softened, but still imparting an indescribable hardness to the countenance otherwise so voluptuous and buxom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I knew the swaying round forms, the bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous lips.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss—and man is weak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:—Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice, such as I had never heard from her lips:—"Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall; but I go on searching until, presently, I find in a high great tomb as if made to one much beloved that other fair sister which, like Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)