Epicurean

Quick meaning: Epicurean is an adjective meaning Pursuing pleasure, especially in reference to food or comfort.

Meaning

Pursuing pleasure, especially in reference to food or comfort.

More Meanings

1. Devoted to luxurious living.
2. One who is devoted to pleasure.

Example Sentences

Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.

I keep but a man and a maid, ever ready to slander and steal ; / I know it, and smile a hard-set smile, like a stoic, or like / A wiser epicurean, and let the world have its way.

The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.

Other eras have had their epicureans or hedonists, of course, who lived and sometimes died for the ideal of simplicity or pleasure in an epic kind of way. But today’s gazillion-strong influencer community has zero intellectual underpinning to it, which is why it’s so often the unwitting butt of its own joke.

Word Forms

• epicureans

Synonyms for epicurean

Depending on context, synonyms include hedonistic, decadent, epicurious, sybaritic, epicureal, epicureous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hedonistic, epicure, sybaritic, hedonic, voluptuary, indulgent.

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