Word Meanings - SENSUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends,

Additional info about word: SENSUAL

1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. Pope. 2. Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. Jude 19. The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine. Hooker. 3. Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity. Atterbury. 4. Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SENSUAL)

• Brutal
• Savage
• inhuman
• rude
• unfeeling
• merciless
• ruthless
• brutish
• barbarous
• sensual
• beastly
• ignorant
• stolid
• dense
• cruel
• violent
• vindictive
• bloodthirsty
• intemperate
• Carnal
• Fleshly
• selfindulgent
• licentious
• animal
• coarse
• base
• worldly
• impure
• libidinous
• secular
• Gross
• Entire
• vulgar
• vicious
• bloated
• bulk
• indelicate
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful
• Luxurious
• Voluptuous
• pleasurable
• pampered
• Sensual
• luxurious
• Self-indulgent
• highly pleasant

Related words: (words related to SENSUAL)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• 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
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• 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.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .