lascivious
Syllables: las·civ·i·ous/ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/US/ləˈsɪvi.əs/
lascivious adjective: wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
Adjective
lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)
- Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
- Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of...c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
lascivious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
lascivious in Tamil
- காம உணர்வு மிகுந்த, காமம் கொண்ட, விரகம் கொண்ட, காம உணர்வைத் தூண்டும், ஆபாசமான
lascivious in Urdu
- عیاش, فاسق, مست, نفس پرست, شہوت انگیز, شوخ
lascivious in Malayalam
- lewd, lecherous, lustful
- കാമാർത്തമായ, കാമാസക്തമായ, ഭോഗാസക്തമായ, കാമാതുരമായ, കാമക്കണ്ണുള്ള, കമന
lascivious in Kannada
- ಕಾಮುಕನಾದ, ವಿಷಯಲಂಪಟನಾದ, ಕಾಮಪ್ರಚೋದಕ
More languagesFewer languages
- lascivious in Tagalog
- hitad, malanya
- lascivious in Arabic
- شَهْوَانِيّ šahwāniyy, شَبِق šabiq, غَلِم ḡalim
- lascivious in Persian
- شهوتی šahvati
Synonyms of lascivious
Forms of lascivious
| comparative | more lascivious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lascivious |
Origin of lascivious
From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
Words formed from lascivious
Questions about lascivious
- What does lascivious mean?
- Lascivious means wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
- What is lascivious in Tamil?
- Lascivious in Tamil is காம உணர்வு மிகுந்த, காமம் கொண்ட, விரகம் கொண்ட. See Lascivious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lascivious?
- Lascivious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce lascivious?
- Lascivious is pronounced /ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/ (UK).
Words near lascivious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lascivious (page history and authors); lascivious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lascivious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lascivious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lascivious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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