| Main Entry: | sensual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physical, erotic |
Synonyms: |
X-rated, animal, animalistic, arousing, bodily, carnal, debauched, delightful, epicurean, exciting, fleshly, heavy*, hedonic, hot*, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, moving, pleasing, rough, sensuous, sexual, sexy, sharpened, steamy, stimulating, stirring, tactile, unchaste, unspiritual, voluptuous |
| Notes: | sensuous usually implies gratification of the senses for the sake of aesthetic pleasure; sensual usually describes gratification of the senses or physical appetites as an end in itself |
Antonyms: |
abstemious, chaste, mental |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
Synonyms: |
beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, brutish, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, mammalian, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, zoological |
| Main Entry: | bodily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning animate structure |
Synonyms: |
actual, animal, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gross, human, material, natural, normal, organic, physical, sensual, somatic, substantial, tangible, unspiritual |
Antonyms: |
mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | epicurean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loving food and finer things |
Synonyms: |
gluttonous, gourmandizing, gourmet, hedonistic, libertine, lush, luxurious, pleasure-seeking, self-indulgent, sensual, sensuous, sybaritic, voluptuous |
| Main Entry: | erotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexy |
Synonyms: |
amative, amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, bawdy, blue*, carnal, concupiscent, earthy, erogenous, fervid, filthy, fleshly, hot*, impassioned, kinky*, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, obscene, off-color, prurient, purple*, raunchy, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, titillating, venereal, voluptuous |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
Antonyms: |
bland, cold, dull, frigid, unerotic |
| Main Entry: | fleshly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lecherous, desiring sex |
Synonyms: |
animal, animalistic, bodily, carnal, erotic, gross, lascivious, lewd, lustful, profane, sensual, venereal, voluptuous |
Antonyms: |
immaterial, religious, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | gross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, vulgar |
Synonyms: |
barnyard, boorish, breezy, callous, carnal, cheap, coarse, corporeal, crass, dull, fleshly, foul, ignorant, improper, impure, in the gutter, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, lewd, loudmouthed, low, low-minded, lustful, obscene, offensive, rank, raunchy, raw, ribald, rough, rude, scatological, sensual, sexual, sleazy*, smutty, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncouth, uncultured, undiscriminating, unfeeling, unrefined, unseemly, unsophisticated, voluptuous |
Antonyms: |
clean, moral, polite |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexually excited |
Synonyms: |
aroused, carnal, concupiscent, erotic, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful, passionate, prurient, salacious, sensual |
Antonyms: |
frigid, turned off |
| Main Entry: | lascivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in sex |
Synonyms: |
X-rated, bawdy, blue, bodily, carnal, coarse, crude, evil-minded, fast*, fleshly, gross*, hard-core, hot*, immoral, incontinent, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, low-down, lubricious, lustful, nasty, obscene, off-color, offensive, orgiastic, pornographic, prurient, randy, raunchy*, raw, ribald, rough, salacious, scurrilous, sensual, smutty, soft-core, steamy, suggestive, unchaste, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton |
Antonyms: |
chaste, decent, moral |
| Main Entry: | lecherous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lustful, lewd |
Synonyms: |
carnal, concupiscent, corrupt, fast*, hot and heavy, incontinent, lascivious, libertine, libidinous, licentious, low-down, lubricous, prurient, raunchy*, salacious, satyric, sensual, unchaste, wanton |
Antonyms: |
chaste, clean |