licentious
Meaning of licentious
adjective
- promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.
the ruler's tyrannical and licentious behaviour
unlike many of the artists who frequented the Soho scene of the 1960s, he did not lead a licentious life
- disregarding accepted conventions, especially in grammar or literary style.
late Middle English: from Latin licentiosus, from licentia ‘freedom’.
Information about licentious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of licentious
li-cen-tious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- licentious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
licentious synonyms
Meaning (of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures:
Meaning (of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures:
Meaning indulging in or characterized by excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs:
Meaning lacking some usual or expected property or quality:
Meaning having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters:
Meaning not conforming to accepted standards of morality:
Meaning sexually unrestrained or having many casual sexual relationships (typically used of a woman):
Meaning characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline:
Meaning morally corrupt; wicked:
Meaning licentious; dissolute:
Meaning mixed with foreign matter; adulterated:
Meaning wicked and immoral; committing or characterized by the committing of sins:
Meaning evil or morally wrong:
Meaning having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain:
Meaning not conforming with generally accepted standards of behaviour, especially in relation to sexual matters:
Meaning characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures:
Meaning having or showing strong feelings of sexual desire:
Meaning having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire:
Meaning feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire:
Meaning showing excessive sexual drive; lustful:
Meaning having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others:
Meaning offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire:
Meaning crude and offensive in a sexual way:
Meaning having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships:
Meaning relating to or engaging in sexual activity, especially of an illicit or extramarital nature:
Meaning relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities:
Meaning relating to human desire or bodily appetites; sensual:
Meaning having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate:
Meaning having been deserted or left:
Meaning referring to sexual matters in an amusingly coarse or irreverent way:
Meaning (of talk, writing, or pictures) obscene or lascivious:
Meaning concerned with sex in a lewd or obscene way:
Meaning obscene and offensive:
Meaning rough or harsh in texture:
Meaning (of a person or their actions) characterized by sexually abnormal and unacceptable practices or tendencies:
Meaning of or resembling horn:
Meaning energetically earthy and sexually explicit:
Meaning (especially of a child) badly behaved; disobedient:
Meaning sexually aroused or excited:
Meaning filled with sexual desire; lustful:
Meaning lecherous:
licentious antonyms
Meaning concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour:
Meaning having or showing high moral standards:
Words that rhyme with licentious
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