Epicurean
[n] a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
[adj] furnishing gratification of 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"
[adj] devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"
[adj] of Epicurus or epicureanism; "Epicurean philosophy"
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Synonyms
bon vivant, epicure, gastronome, gourmet, hedonic, hedonistic, indulgent, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
Related Terms
amateur, appetitive, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bent on pleasure, bon vivant, carnal, carpet knight, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, crapulent, crapulous, critic, Cyrenaic, dilettante, dissipated, dissolu