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epicure, gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant, epicurean, foodie

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

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Epicurean

adj. of Epicurus or epicureanism; "Epicurean philosophy"

hedonic, hedonistic, epicurean

adj. devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"

epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous

adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to 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"

glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman

n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

esthete, aesthete

n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

dabbler, dilettante, sciolist

n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

whiz

n. a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air; "he heard the whiz of bullets near his head"

connoisseur, cognoscente

n. an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts

expert

n. a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

evaluator, judge

n. an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

cook

n. someone who cooks food

baker, bread maker

n. someone who bakes bread or cake

libertine, debauchee, rounder

n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual

adj. marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

erotic, titillating

adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing

worldly, secular, temporal

adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

enjoyable, gratifying, pleasurable

adj. affording satisfaction or pleasure; "the company was enjoyable"; "found her praise gratifying"; "full of happiness and pleasurable excitement"; "good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"

decadent, effete

adj. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous

adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to 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"

intemperate, hard, heavy

adj. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

pampering(a)

adj. gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"; "a very pampering cruise experience"