Word Meanings - VOLUPTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. velle 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

Additional info about word: VOLUPTUOUS

pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. velle 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, adv. -- , n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOLUPTUOUS)

• Licentious
• Voluptuous
• dissolute
• rakish
• debauched
• self-indulgent
• lax
• profligate
• loose
• unbridled
• Luxurious
• selfindulgent
• pleasurable
• sensual
• pampered
• Sensual
• Carnal
• fleshly
• animal
• voluptuous
• lewd

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VOLUPTUOUS)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to VOLUPTUOUS)

• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• RAKISH
  Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• SENSUAL
  1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends,
• SENSUALISM
  The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.