Meaning & use
voluptuous
Having a full, curvaceous figure, or richly pleasurable to the senses.
See it in a sentence
The painting depicted a voluptuous woman reclining on velvet cushions.
The dessert had a voluptuous richness that made even one slice feel indulgent.
A note on using this word
Volumptious is a common misspelling; voluptuous has no extra m, coming from the Latin voluptas, meaning pleasure.
Words with a similar meaning
curvaceoussensuous
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Words with an opposite meaning
slightspare
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