curvaceous

English

Alternative forms

• curvacious

Etymology

From curve +‎ -aceous. Originally American English, 1930s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɚˈveɪ.ʃɪs/, /-ʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

curvaceous (comparative more curvaceous, superlative most curvaceous)

1. (of a woman) Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
   • 1962, M. E. Knerr, The Sex Life of the Gods‎^[1]:

     He watched her walk, upon curvaceous legs, to the edge of the bed. For just a second, she smiled down at him.

   • 2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, “This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Anya is tall, gorgeous and curvaceous, all of which I enjoy sexually, especially the curvaceous part: I enjoy squeezing and grabbing all the sexy, abundant parts of her body.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:voluptuous

Derived terms

• curvaceously
• curvaceousness
• uncurvaceous

 

Translations

having shapely or sensual curves

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凹凸有致 (āotūyǒuzhì), 豐滿／丰满 (zh) (fēngmǎn), 肉感 (zh) (ròugǎn)

• Danish: yppig
• Esperanto: abunda (eo)
• Finnish: kurvikas (fi)
• French: plantureux (fr), pulpeux (fr) m, bien roulé m (colloquial)
• German: kurvenreich (de), kurvig (de)
• Hebrew: חטובה f (khat'uva)
• Hungarian: formás (hu), fullos (slang)
• Icelandic: þrýstinn
• Interlingua: curvace
• Irish: dea-chumtha
• Italian: formoso (it) m
• Japanese: 肉感的な (ja) (にっかんてきな, nikkanteki-na), 豊満な (ja) (ほうまんな, hōman-na)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: yppig

  Nynorsk: yppig

• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: фигу́ристый (ru) (figúristyj), пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj), с краси́выми окру́глыми фо́рмами (s krasívymi okrúglymi fórmami)
• Swedish: kurvig (sv), yppig (sv)

Further reading

• “curvaceous”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• curvaceous at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.