About The Word Epicurean
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Epicurean
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Epicurean: bon vivant | epicure | gastronome | gourmet | hedonic | hedonistic | indulgent | luxurious | sybaritic | voluptuary | voluptuous Related Terms | Find terms related to Epicurean: 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 | dissolute | epicure | eudaemonic | expert | fun-loving | gluttonous | good judge | gourmand | gourmet | hedonic | hedonist | hedonistic | Heliogabalus | immoderate | intemperate | judge | libidinous | luscious | lush | luxurious | luxury-loving | maven | orgiastic | overindulgent | piggish | pleasure-bent | pleasure-loving | pleasure-seeker | pleasure-seeking | porcine | refined palate | Sardanapalus | self-indulgent | sensual | sensualist | sensuist | swine | swinish | sybarite | sybaritic | unchaste | unconfined | unrestrained | virtuoso | voluptuary | voluptuous | wild See Also | sensualist Epicurean In Webster's Dictionary \Ep`i*cu*re"an\ (?; 277), a. [L. Epicureus, Gr. ?: cf.
['e]picurien.]
1. Pertaining to Epicurus, or following his philosophy. ``The
sect Epicurean.'' --Milton.
2. Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious;
pertaining to good eating.
Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes.
--Prescott.
{Epicurean philosophy}. See {Atomic philosophy}, under
{Atomic}.
\Ep`i*cu*re"an\, n. 1. A follower or Epicurus. 2. One given to epicurean indulgence. |
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