as in sensualist
a person whose life is devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures a fin de siècle novel about dandies and voluptuaries

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voluptuary

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adjective

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Recent Examples of voluptuary
Adjective
Nothing important happens in this movie, which the Italian voluptuary Luca Guadagnino directed and yet, being as manically alive as Mr. Fiennes is here has to count for something. Wesley Morris, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for voluptuary
Noun
  • Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The look’s holistic effect contrasted sensual styling on the top, with streamlined suited inspiration with the pants.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In between times, there are long shots of the gingko, tree’s-eye views of what is happening on the ground and squelching closeups of germinating seeds – luscious and inescapably sensual.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • If Ritter is a masochist and a sadist, Eloise is a pure hedonist.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This version of Trump is a lawsuit-happy hedonist who is literally in bed with Satan (in South Park, Satan is something of a lost soul, often ending up in abusive relationships).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • Our silhouettes, with their small waists and voluptuous curves, embody strength and elegance.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While assisting her father, Ruysch learned to draw, in time developing a style that combined a taste for color—at once delicate and voluptuous—with a naturalist’s tactile curiosity.
    Cullen Murphy, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Higher volumes of sybarites are also tasking luxury operators with making crowd-free vacation dreams come true.
    Lindsay Cohn, Robb Report, 20 May 2025
  • What unites these contemporary sybarites with their stylish forebears is a powerful longing for freedom.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This is also true of being hedonistic and powerful, although good people were equally powerful or hedonistic than not good people.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Receiving a cut of every Cadillac sold in California, Tommy lived a playboy life, speeding cars, dating starlets, and competing in drag races along the dry desert lake beds of the Mojave Desert, hurtling across the sand in goggles at over 100 miles per hour.
    Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as a cocky playboy ping-pong player, and that’s not even the most interesting part.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Voluptuary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voluptuary. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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