Buxom

Word BUXOM
Character 5
Hyphenation bux om
Pronunciations /ˈbʌksəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Buxom"

What do we mean by buxom?

Healthily plump and ample of figure. adjective

Full-bosomed. adjective

Lively; vivacious. adjective

Obedient; yielding; pliant. adjective

To be obedient; yield.

Yielding to pressure; flexible; unresisting.

Obedient; obsequious; submissive.

Having health and comeliness together with a lively disposition; healthy and cheerful; brisk; jolly; lively and vigorous.

Showing vigor or robustness; sturdy; fresh; brisk: said of things: as, “buxom valour,”

Amorous; wanton.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. adjective

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. adjective

Having a pronounced womanly shape. adjective

Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts. adjective

Healthy, lively. adjective

Cheerful, lively, happy. adjective

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves adjective

(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous adjective

Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally).

Submissive, humble, meek (as subsense of 4).

Gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly (as subsense of 1).

With infinitive: Easily moved, prone, ready (as subsense of 1).

Flexible, pliant (arising from sense 1).

Blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay (attested after 1).

(of a man or woman) Cheerful, happy (possibly as subsense of 6).

(chiefly of women) Full of health, vigour, and good temper; well-favoured, plump and comely, 'jolly', comfortable-looking (in person). (arising from sense 6).

(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts (as subsense of 8).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Buxom

The word "buxom" in example sentences

None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades, her father's brother, to be called his buxom wife. ❋ Hesiod (N/A)

Russell, best known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory problems at her home in Santa Maria, central California, according to Etta Waterfield, her daughter-in-law. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Russell, best known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory failure at her home in Santa Maria, central California, her family said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Russell, best known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s films, died of respiratory problems at her home in Santa Maria, central California, according to Etta Waterfield, her daughter-in-law. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Henry seemed to have so much guilt attached to his marriage with Katherine; one wonders if it was because she was, as Henry himself testified, "buxom" in the bedchamber. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

English marriage rites until the fourteenth century, when the wife promised to be "buxom" (which then meant submissive) and "bonair" ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Hades, her father’s brother, to be called his buxom wife. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Madame Guiccioli was a kind of buxom parlour-boarder, compressing herself artificially into dignity and elegance, and fancying she walked, in the eyes of the whole world, a heroine by the side of a poet. ❋ Galt, John, 1779-1839 (1830)

She had a riotous, inappropriate sense of humor, which I inherited, along with her "buxom" figure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(after all, "buxom" and "consumptive" aren't usually written about the same performer in the same performance by critics; in this case, sadly, it happened). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’m working on a screenplay: a romantic comedy about a young — O.K., youngish — woman who’s a kind of buxom mainstream corporate lawyer by day but is secretly an indie-music-head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

February 2nd, 2010 at 6: 46 pm dbadass says: buxom blondes? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Horned helmets, broadswords, buxom blonde braids … ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the former, Hagar, a buxom young woman in red, and her anxious son, Ishmael, are ushered from the house by a turbaned Abraham, while Sarah shrieks from an upstairs window. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

LNN: On that note, tell us about the buxom, young cultist you have on this page of your website. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was made to look more buxom than the reality in the John Hughes written ‘Career Opportunities’ and also in ‘The Rocketeer’ where her character was based on Bettie Page, following the Dave Stevens comics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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