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

adj. of Epicurus or epicureanism; "Epicurean philosophy"

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

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"

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

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

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

n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

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

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

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

n. someone who cooks food

n. someone who bakes bread or cake

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

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"

adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing

adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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

adj. overly indulgent; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"

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"

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

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

adj. overly indulgent; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"