Lascivious \Las*civ"i*ous\ (l[a^]s*s[i^]v"[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L.
lascivia wantonness, fr. lascivus wanton; cf. Gr. la`stauros
lecherous, lh^n to wish, Skr. lash to desire.]
1. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious
desires. --Milton.
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2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
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He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lascivious
adj : driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful
desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lewd, libidinous,
lustful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "lascivious":
Cyprian, Fescennine, amative, amatory, amorous, animal,
aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, ardent, bawdy, blue, carnal,
clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, debauched, desiderative,
desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic,
eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, goatish,
gross, gynecomaniacal, hircine, hoping, hormic, horny, hot,
hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, impassioned, incontinent, indecent,
itching, ithyphallic, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinal,
libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loverlike, loverly, lubricious,
lubricous, lurid, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene,
offensive, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, pornographic,
priapic, prurient, randy, ribald, ruttish, salacious, satyric,
sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, tempted,
unsatisfied, vile, wanting, wanton, wishing
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
lewd, libidinous, lustful
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