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Definition: Curvaceous |
CurvaceousAdjective1. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CurvaceousSynonyms: bosomy (adj), busty (adj), buxom (adj), curvy (adj), full-bosomed (adj), sonsie (adj), sonsy (adj), voluptuous (adj), well-endowed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curvaceous |
| English words defined with "curvaceous": bosomy, busty, buxom, buxomly ♦ curvaceously, curvy ♦ full-bosomed ♦ sonsie, sonsy ♦ voluptuous ♦ well-endowed. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1919) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Curvaceous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Curvaceous" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
curvaceous | 44 |
curvaceous woman | 9 |
curvaceous figure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "curvaceous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pìknì stavìná, mající hezkou figuru. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دارای انحناء وقوسهای ظریف زنانه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyöreäpovinen (full-bosomed), kurvikas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kurvenreich (bendy, serpentine, shapely, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | telt idomú, gömbölyded idomú, csábos idomú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | montok (buxom, chubby, plump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stoamey (dashing, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, large-breasted, personable, shapely, well-formed, well-formed person, well-proportioned), cruillagh (browbeaten, curved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urvaceouscay okrugao (rotund, round, spheral), bujan (ample, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, thick, torrential, wild). (various references) kurvig. (various references) kıvrımlı hatlara sahip (curvy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Curvaceous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceraceous, coriaceous, curvacious, ulvaceus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-o-r-s-u-u-v" | |
-3 letters: accrues, accuser, acerous, carouse, raucous, succour, vacuous. | |
-4 letters: accrue, accuse, arouse, aureus, aurous, carves, caucus, causer, cavers, cercus, cerous, cesura, coarse, corsac, corves, course, covers, craves, crocus, crouse, cruces, curves, occurs, saucer, savour, scarce, soccer, soucar, source, suaver, succor, uraeus, uveous. | |
-5 letters: acres, arcus, arose, arvos, aures, avers, cares, carse, carve, cause, caver. | |
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