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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
voluptuary is a noun and adjective meaning "a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for voluptuary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.