Dictionary Definition
libidinous adj : driven by lust; preoccupied with
or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, lustful]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /lɪ'bɪdɪnəs/
Adjective
- Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
Quotations
- 1726 — Jonathan
Swift, Gulliver's
Travels Part IV, ch. viii
- It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
Synonyms
- (having lustful desires) hot to trot, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, wanton
Related terms
Translations
having lustful desires
- Chinese:
- French: libidineux
- German: lüstern
- Greek: φιλήδονος (philédonos)
- Italian: libidinoso
- Japanese:
- kanji: 貪欲
- hiragana: どんよく
- romaji: donyoku
- hiragana: どんよく
- kanji: 貪欲
- Korean:
- hangul: 음탕한
- romaja: eumtanghan
- hangul: 음탕한
- Latin: libidinosus
- Old English: galfull, gallic
- Romanian: libidinos
- Russian: похотливый (pokhotlivy)
- Spanish: libidinoso
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
animal,
aphrodisiomaniacal,
appetitive, bawdy, carnal, clitoromaniacal,
coarse, concupiscent, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, dirty, eager, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal,
erotomaniacal,
fast, fleshly, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hoping, hormic, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal,
incontinent,
itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinal, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, needing, nymphomaniacal, obscene, optative, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, priapic, prurient, randy, salacious, satyric, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, steamy, tempted, unsatisfied, wanting, wishing