Prurient \Pru"ri*ent\, a. [L. pruries, -entis, p. pr. of prurire
to itch. Cf. Freeze.]
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious
curiosity or propensity; lustful. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prurient
adj : characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of
her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful
nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a
salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious,
lustful, salacious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "prurient":
Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, agape, agog, all agog, animal,
aphrodisiomaniacal, athirst, bawdy, blue, burning with curiosity,
carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
consumed with curiosity, consumed with desire, coveting, craving,
crude, curious, debauched, devoured by desire, dirty, ejaculatory,
erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fervid, filthy, fleshly,
foul, ghoulish, goatish, gossipy, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny,
hot, hot-blooded, hungering, hungry, hysteromaniacal, indecent,
inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itching, itchy, ithyphallic,
lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish,
loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, mad with lust,
morbid, morbidly curious, nymphomaniacal, obscene, open-eyed,
openmouthed, orgasmic, orgastic, overcurious, passionate,
pornographic, priapic, quizzical, rakehell, randy, ribald, ruttish,
salacious, satyric, scopophiliac, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved,
sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, suggestive, supercurious, thirsting,
thirsty, titillating, unsatisfied, vile, voluptuous, voyeuristic,
vulgar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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