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Voluptuary Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ary

Voluptuary has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

2

One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.

Adjective
1

displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to 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"

2

Of or relating to the seeking of sensual pleasure.

Example Sentences
"an epicurean banquet" adjective
"enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs" adjective
"Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence" adjective
"a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" adjective
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
sensualist
Rhyming Words
ary bary vary mary dary gary cary wary nary fary viary neary weary spary ovary snary teary hoary leary beary
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