epicurean
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
• Syn:
epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, foodie
• Derivationally related forms:
epicurean (for: epicure)
• Hypernyms:
sensualist
1. devoted to pleasure
- a hedonic thrill
- lives of unending hedonistic delight
- epicurean pleasures
• Syn:
hedonic, hedonistic
• Similar to:
indulgent
• Derivationally related forms:
epicure, hedonism (for: hedonistic), hedonism (for: hedonic)
2. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
- an epicurean banquet
- enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs
- Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
- a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
• Syn:
luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
• Similar to:
indulgent
• Derivationally related forms:
voluptuousness (for: voluptuous), voluptuary (for: voluptuary), sybarite (for: sybaritic), luxuriousness (for: luxurious)
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