voluptuous

Definition

Characterized or marked by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.

Etymology

From Middle French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus (“delightful”), from voluptās (“pleasure, delight”), from volup (“with pleasure”).

Example Sentences

• "The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body."
• "Thus we lay, whilst a voluptuous languor possest, and still maintain'd us motionless and fast locked in one another's arms"
• "It was upon riches he founded his claim to importance; riches could alone supply the enjoyments of luxury; those voluptuous pleasures upon which the sensualist refines, and without which life appears but a mere vegetative existence, unproductive of enjoyment."