Licentious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Licentious \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F.
     licencieux. See {License}.]
     1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive;
        abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious
        press.
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              A wit that no licentious pertness knows. --Savage.
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     2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral;
        dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a
        licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." --Shak.
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     Syn: Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous;
          ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose;
          sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Li*cen"tious*ly}, adv. --
          {Li*cen"tious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  licentious
       adj : lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained;
             "coarse and licentious men"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "licentious":
     abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved,
     disobedient, dissipated, dissolute, fast, fleshly, free,
     free-living, gallant, gay, go-go, headstrong, heady, high-living,
     hubristic, immoderate, immoral, incontinent, indulgent,
     insubordinate, intemperate, irrepressible, irresponsible,
     lascivious, lawless, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
     loose, lustful, mutinous, nonrestrictive, out of control,
     out of hand, oversexed, permissive, presuming, presumptuous,
     profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant,
     randy, reinless, relaxed, reprobate, riotous, salacious, satyric,
     scabrous, self-willed, sensual, unaccountable, unbridled,
     unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled,
     uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited,
     unmastered, unmeasured, unmoral, unmuzzled, unprincipled, unreined,
     unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly,
     unsubdued, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, wildcat, willful