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Definitions: Voluptuous |
VoluptuousAdjective1. Having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman". 2. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress". 3. Furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "voluptuous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Voluptuous \Vo*lup"tu*ous\, adjective. [French expression voluptueux, from Latin expression voluptuosus, from voluptas pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Greek to hope, hope, and to Latin velle to wish. See Voluntary.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VoluptuousSynonyms: bosomy (adj), busty (adj), buxom (adj), curvaceous (adj), curvy (adj), epicurean (adj), full-bosomed (adj), juicy (adj), luscious (adj), luxurious (adj), red-hot (adj), sonsie (adj), sonsy (adj), sybaritic (adj), voluptuary (adj), well-endowed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty. |
Intemperance | Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. |
Pain | Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual. |
Physical Pleasure | Adjective: enjoying. Verb: luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Voluptuous |
| English words defined with "voluptuous": Epicurean ♦ juicy ♦ luscious, Luxive, luxurious ♦ red-hot ♦ sybaritic ♦ voluptuary, voluptuously ♦ wanton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "voluptuous": Ages, Armi da ♦ Piano. (references) |
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Screenplays | But after all, I am young, voluptuous, and irresistible. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) They were sweet-smelling, coy, cunning, voluptuous, voracious, delicious, pernicious, vexing and sexingthese earth sister rebel mothersthese arousers and carousers. (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Voluptuous Xtra 6 (2003) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At certain moments there was a strange contrast between this chaste brow and this voluptuous smile. |
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| "Voluptuous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Voluptuous" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 100 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "voluptuous". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Adin | N/A | Biblical | Voluptuous |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "voluptuous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qejfli (cognoscente, liver, playful, voluptuary), epshor (concupiscent, horny, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, prurient), epshndjellës (lascivious, salacious, sensualist), argëtues (amusing, diverting, frolic, humorous, jocose, recreative, rollicking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبهج للحواس, حسي (object lesson, receptive, sensational, sensitive, sensory, sensual, tangible), شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, wanton, warm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сластен (salacious), сладострастен (erotic, lascivious, lustful, sensual), разкошен (costly, gorgeous, imperial, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, palatial, princely, profuse, royal, splendiferous, sumptuous, superb), чувствен (amorous, fleshly, lush, material, sensual, sensuous), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vnadný, smyslný (carnal, earthly, Randy, sensual, sensuous, sultry, wanton), rozkošnický, kyprý (fluffy, light, loose, plump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wulps, wellustig (sensual, sensuous), geil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | volupta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | شهوتران (Lecher, Licentious, Oversexed, Salacious), شهوت پرست (Lecherous, Lewd, Salacious), شهوت انگیز (Lascivious, Luscious, Lusty, Sexy), شهوانی (Brutal, Carnal, Lascivious, Lecherous, Lustful, Passionate, Random, Ruttish, Salacious, Sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hekumallinen (lascivious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voluptueux (voluptuary), sensuel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wollüstig (ecstatic, lascivious, lecherous, lecherously, lustful, lusty, salacious, sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλήδονοσ (lickerish, sensual, sensualist, sensualistic, voluptuary), ηδονικόσ, ασελγήσ (carnal, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, profligate, prurient), αισθησιακόσ (sensationalistic, sensual, sensuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תאות י (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, passionate, prurient, salacious, sensual), חוש י (carnal, sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kéjsóvár (concupiscent, concupisible, gloat, lubricious, lustful), kéjes (erotic, lascivious, luscious, sensual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bahenol (nicely shaped, sexy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | voluttuoso (sensual), lussurioso (lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, salacious), lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustful, lustily, prurient, randy, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 色っぽい (amorous, erotic, sexy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうま" (corpulent, indiscretion, laxity, looseness, plump, satiety, stout, surfeit, whimsy), ほうえ" (beautiful, fascinating, gunsmoke, smoke of cannon, square and round shapes, squares and circles), か"のうてき (sensual, sexy), いろっぽい (amorous, erotic, sexy), ようえ" (far away, fascinating, heat haze, remote, shimmer of hot air, very far-off), え" (bonds, chance, charming, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, fate, garden, hatred, karma, relation, salt, weir, Yen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soyllaragh (self-indulgent, sensual, voluptuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oluptuousvay voluptuoso (high-speed train, lechery, luscious, luxuriously, sensual), voluptário, sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicureanism, fleshpot, goatling, high-sounding, incontinently, laser, Lewis, libidinousness, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, wanton), libidinoso (concupiscent, goatish, high-sounding, lewd, libidinous, obscene, rammish, satyr, sensual). (various references) voluptos (sensual, sensuous), senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, Randy, salacious, sensual, sensuous). (various references) сладострастный (aphrodisiac, lascivious, libidinous, salacious, venereal), роскошный (de luxe, deluxe, lordly, luxurious, palatial, plushy, posh, princely, rank, rich, splendid, sumptuous), пышный (baronial, costly, flamboyant, gingerbread, high-sounding, luxuriant, opulent, pompous, purple, showy). (various references) pohotljiv (concupiscent, fleshly, goatish, goaty, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, lusty, prurient, rammish, randy, salacious), pohotan (carnal, lascivious, libidinous). (various references) voluptuoso (voluptuary). (various references) vällustig (lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, voluptuary). (various references) zevk düşkünü (pleasure-seeking, sensual, sybarite), seks düşkünü (goatish, libidinous, licentious, oversexed), lüks (costliness, costly, de luxe, grandeur, lux, luxe, luxurious, luxury, plushy, posh, pukka, ritzy, stateliness, sumptuous, sumptuousness, swish, Tony), cinsel istek uyandıran (erogenic, erogenous, erotic, sex, sexy, sultry), şehvetli (concupiscent, fleshly, hot, lascivious, lustful, prurient, salacious, sensual). (various references) розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, lordly, luxurious, palatial, ritzy, splendid, sumptuous, swank, upholstered), чутт"вий (sensational, sensual, sensuous). (various references) khoái lạc; ưa nhục dục gây khoái lạc; đầy vẻ khoái lạc, khêu gợi (coquettish, luscious, rousing, tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus, voluptuosus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "voluptuous": voluptuously, voluptuousness, voluptuousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Voluptuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: valuptuous, veluptuous, volumptuous, voluptious, voluptous, voluptuious, voluptuoos, voluptuos, voluptuus, volupuous, volutuous, vuluptuous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "voluptuous" (pronounced vulu"pkhuwus) |
| 6 | -p kh u w u s | presumptuous. |
| 5 | -kh u w u s | fatuous, sensuous, tortuous. |
| 4 | -u w u s | tenuous, unambiguous. |
| 3 | -w u s | assiduous, impetuous, incestuous, inconspicuous, marquess, promiscuous, sinuous, sumptuous, unctuous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-o-p-s-t-u-u-u-v" | |
-4 letters: lupous, poults, volost. | |
-5 letters: loops, loots, lotos, lotus, loups, louts, lupus, plots, polos, pools, poult, pouts, sloop, sotol, spool, spout, stool, stoop, stoup, tolus, tools, topos, volts. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-o-p-s-t-u-u-u-v" | |
+2 letters: voluptuously. | |
+4 letters: voluptuousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6C 75 70 74 75 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110000 01110100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o l u p t u o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 006C 0075 0070 0074 0075 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56817887828687818785 |
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