Word Meanings - LICENTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage. 2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd;
Additional info about word: LICENTIOUS
1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage. 2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak. Syn. -- Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous; ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose; sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral. -- Li*cen"tious*ly, adv. -- Li*cen"tious*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LICENTIOUS)
- Abandoned
- Profligate
- wicked
- vicious
- unprincipled
- reprobate
- incorrigible
- sinful
- graceless
- demoralized
- dissolute
- depraved
- bad
- licentious
- corrupt
- Carnal
- Fleshly
- sensual
- selfindulgent
- animal
- coarse
- base
- worldly
- impure
- libidinous
- secular
- Dissolute
- profligate
- loose
- wanton
- Lax
- Loose
- vague
- incoherent
- remiss
- flabby
- slack
- Unbound
- detached
- flowing
- scattered
- sparse
- incompact
- inexact
- rambling
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LICENTIOUS)
Related words: (words related to LICENTIOUS)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - CARNALIST
A sensualist. Burton. - REMISS
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - REMISSLY
In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
Grossness of mind. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - UNBOUND
imp. & p. p. of Unbind. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - AMELIORATE
To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."