Thesaurus:hedonistic

Thesaurus

hedonistic

English

Adjective

Sense: devoted to pleasure and luxurious living

Synonyms

• Babylonian (figuratively)
• decadent
• epicureal
• epicurean
• epicureous
• epicurish
• hedonic
• hedonistic
• intemperate
• lotus-eating
• luxurious (dated)
• self-indulgent
• sensualistic
• sinful
• sybarite
• sybaritic
• sybaritical
• voluptuarian
• voluptuary

Antonyms

• abstemious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• antihedonistic
• ascetic
• austere
• nondecadent
• nonhedonic
• nonhedonistic
• puritanical
• self-abnegatory    [⇒ thesaurus]
• undecadent
• unepicurean
• unhedonistic
• unluxurious
• unsinful

Hyponyms

By specific pleasure:

• Apician
• promiscuous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• voracious    [⇒ thesaurus]

Advocating hedonism as a moral virtue:

• Aristippan (chiefly historical)
• Aristippian (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenaic (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenian (chiefly historical)
• Cyrenean (chiefly historical)
• Epicurean (chiefly historical)

To a self-destructive degree:

• debauched
• dissolute
• dissipated

Hypernyms

• devoted
• excessive    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:pleasure
• Thesaurus:sensualist

Further reading

• “827. pleasure” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hedonistic” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.