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licentuous

/laɪˈsɛn.t͡ʃu.əs/

licentuous is the misconstruction of licentious.

Meaning of licentious

Adjective

licentious (comparative more licentious, superlative most licentious)

  1. Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
    • His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 228
  2. Disregarding accepted rules.

Forms of licentuous

comparativemore licentuous
superlativemost licentuous

Questions about licentuous

What is licentuous the misconstruction of?
Licentuous is the misconstruction of licentious.
How do you pronounce licentuous?
Licentuous is pronounced /laɪˈsɛn.t͡ʃu.əs/.

Words near licentuous in the dictionary

  1. licentiation
  2. licentious
  3. licentiously
  4. licentiousness
  5. licentiousnesses
  6. licentuous
  7. Licerio
  8. Licerios
  9. licey
  10. lich
  11. lich field

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Adapted from Wiktionary: licentuous (page history and authors); licentious (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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