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lecherous

/ˈlɛtʃ.ə.ɹəs/US/ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ɚ.əs/

lecherous adjective: given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.

Adjective

lecherous (comparative more lecherous, superlative most lecherous)

  1. Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.
    • Adam was a perfectly satisfactory dinner companion, if not a bit damp and blandly lecherous (he revealed he had looked at my Instagram before we met and “really liked the photos of me in a bathing suit.”) And now, standing on the street corner, it was unclear how I was going to walk away from this...2016 March 21, Allison P. Davies, “What I Learned Tindering My Way Across Europe”, in Travel + Leisure, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018

lecherous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

lecherous in Tamil

ஒழுக்கக் கேடான

lecherous in Urdu

شہوانی

lecherous in Bengali

কামুক, লম্পট

lecherous in Malayalam

lascivious, lustful, licentious
കാമാർത്തിയുള്ള, ലമ്പടത്വമുള്ള, വിഷയലമ്പടനായ, വ്യഭിചരിക്കുന്ന, അഴിഞ്ഞ, വിമാർഗ്ഗഗാമി
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lecherous in Kannada
ವಿಷಯಲಂಪಟತೆಯ, ಹಾದರದ, ಕಾಮುಕ, ವ್ಯಭಿಚಾರದ
lecherous in Punjabi
ਹਿਰਸੀ hirsī

Forms of lecherous

comparativemore lecherous
superlativemost lecherous

Origin of lecherous

From Middle English lecherous, licherous, from Old French *lecherous (attested in Old French lecherousement (“lecherously”)), from Old French lecherie, licherie (“gluttony, sensuality, lewdness, lechery”), from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekkōn, *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), equivalent to lecher + -ous. More at lick.

Words formed from lecherous

Questions about lecherous

What does lecherous mean?
Lecherous means given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.
What is lecherous in Tamil?
Lecherous in Tamil is ஒழுக்கக் கேடான. See Lecherous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lecherous?
Lecherous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lecherous?
Lecherous is pronounced /ˈlɛtʃ.ə.ɹəs/ (UK).

Words near lecherous in the dictionary

  1. lechered
  2. lecherer
  3. lecherers
  4. lecheries
  5. lechering
  6. lecherous
  7. lecherously
  8. lecherousness
  9. lechers
  10. lechery
  11. leches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lecherous (page history and authors); lecherous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lecherous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lecherous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lecherous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lecherous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਹਿਰਸੀ (Punjabi) (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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