noun
- A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink.
- synonyms: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, foodie
adjective
- Of Epicurus or epicureanism.
- usage: "Epicurean philosophy"
- Devoted to pleasure.
- usage: "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"
- synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic
- Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
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