lascivious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: las=civ=i=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

lascivious, a. [L. lascivia wantonness, fr. lascivus wanton; cf. Gr. la`stauros lecherous, lh^n to wish, Skr. lash to desire.].

•  Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.  [1913 Webster]

  "He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
  To the lascivious pleasing of a lute."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lascivious, adj.
1 lustful.
2 inciting to or evoking lust.

Derivative

lasciviously adv. lasciviousness n.

Etymology

ME f. LL lasciviosus f. L lascivia lustfulness f. lascivus sportive, wanton

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

lascivious

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.