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voluptuous
Meaning: richly luxurious and pleasing to the senses
voluptuous in a sentence
How voluptuous is used in real sentences:
The palace chamber had a voluptuous splendor of silk, perfume, and candlelight.
The chef created a voluptuous dessert layered with dark chocolate and fragrant cream.
“Yet farther downslope, older patches formed voluptuous carpets of orange and sage, their saturated colors and soft-looking folds surprisingly lavish against the gray moraine.”
— from the passage The Moraine Calendar
Synonyms for voluptuous
Other words for voluptuous — luxurious, sumptuous and sensuous — carry the same meaning.
- luxurious
- sumptuous
- sensuous
Antonyms of voluptuous
Words that mean the opposite of voluptuous:
Where it comes from
From Latin voluptas, meaning 'pleasure or delight.'
Memory hook
VOLUPTUOUS sounds like VOLUME: turn up the richness and sensory pleasure.
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