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Epicurean   /ˌɛpəkjʊrˈiən/  /ˌɛpəkjˈʊriən/   Listen
Epicurean

noun
1.
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).  Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet.
adjective
1.
Of Epicurus or epicureanism.
2.
Devoted to pleasure.  Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic.  "Lives of unending hedonistic delight" , "Epicurean pleasures"
3.
Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses.  Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous.  "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"



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"Epicurean" Quotes from Famous Books



... meal of the day, and, occupying often two or three hours, it is made not merely an epicurean feast, but also an intellectual and social banquet. Strong coffee, served in the tiniest of porcelain cups, follows the guests on their return to the drawing-rooms, and music, conversation, reading and company fill up the hours ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various
... the easy-going face of the bluff epicurean in uniform, said to himself, "If it required any brains I could ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle. The epicurean prospect of the Sunday dinner reflected in the restful face as well as materialized in the basket can hardly fail to elicit a gentle thought from the sternest ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... has heard of that other Dutch love—for good things on the table. This epicurean trait perhaps has been exaggerated; Mrs. Grant herself had her doubts at first; but she, like most visitors, soon realized that a Dutchman's "tea" was a fair banquet. ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... who encountered Paul." The leading tenets of both these sects were diametrically opposed to the doctrines of Christianity. The ruling spirit of each was alien from the spirit of Christ. The haughty pride of the Stoic, the Epicurean abandonment to pleasure, placed them in direct antagonism to him who proclaimed the crucified and risen Christ to be ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker


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