voluptuously

1. 1.

   in a shapely and voluptuous manner

   “a voluptuously curved woman”
2. 2.

   in an indulgently voluptuous manner

   “he sniffed the perfume voluptuously”

Questions about voluptuously

What does voluptuously mean?

voluptuously means "in a shapely and voluptuous manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in voluptuously?

voluptuously has 5 syllables and divides as vo-lup-tu-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is voluptuously a common word?

voluptuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.