The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voluptuous \Vo*lup"tu*ous\, a. [F. voluptueux, L. voluptuosus, fr. voluptas pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. ? to hope, ? hope, and to L. velle to wish. See Voluntary.]
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Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
Music arose with its voluptuous swell.
--Byron.Sink back into your voluptuous repose.
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Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications. ``The jolly and voluptuous livers.''
--Atterbury.Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
--Milton. [1913 Webster] -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a voluptuous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a shapely and voluptuous manner; "a voluptuously curved woman"
in an indulgently voluptuous manner; "he sniffed the perfume voluptuously"
Usage examples of "voluptuously".
I saw a woman dressed with the utmost elegance, reclining voluptuously upon a couch.
And, furthermore, when I went out into the garden to pick a few tulips, there he is, on the other side of the brick wall, lolling voluptuously among the creeping buttercups, fat as butter himself -- Letty's been feeding him up.
Fancy me after a year and a half of sleeping with my clothes on in trenches and haylofts, sleeping now in a most voluptuously soft bed in a pink and white room, with a tiled bathroom adjoining.