epicurean
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Types & categories
- sensualist hypernym
Related & opposite
- hedonic derivation
Sense 2 adjective
devoted to pleasure
a hedonic thrill
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
an epicurean banquet
Related & opposite
- luxuriance derivation
- voluptuary derivation
- sumptuousness derivation
- indulgent similar to
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hedonic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sensualist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hedonism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hedonism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | epicure |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | indulgent |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | luxuriance |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | voluptuary |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sumptuousness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | indulgent |