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adjectivesexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd. unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral. going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits; disregarding rules. Origin of licentiousFirst recorded in 1525–35, licentious is from the Latin word licentiōsus “unrestrained”; see license, -ous SYNONYMS FOR licentiousSEE SYNONYMS FOR licentious ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR licentiousSEE ANTONYMS FOR licentious ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM licentiousli·cen·tious·ly, adverbli·cen·tious·ness, nounnon·li·cen·tious, adjectivenon·li·cen·tious·ly, adverb o·ver·li·cen·tious, adjectiveo·ver·li·cen·tious·ly, adverbun·li·cen·tious, adjectiveun·li·cen·tious·ly, adverb WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH licentiouslascivious, licentious Words nearby licentiouslicensed vocational nurse, licensee, license plate, licensure, licentiate, licentious, licentiousness, licet, lich, lichee, lichen Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for licentiousFor Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.” Don’t Diss the Beauty of Brunch: Defending Our Favorite Meal|Tim Teeman|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST “Licentious and immoral practices seem to get great head amongst young people,” he preached. The Hellish Sermons of Jonathan Edwards, Malign Evangelist|Matthew Paul Turner|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST He also accuses Isabel of repeatedly trying to seduce him, although he supposedly refused to succumb to her licentious ways. Mark Twain's Sex Toys|Laura Skandera Trombley|June 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST And shame on Tiger, for another kind of promiscuity—the licentious use of his father. The Psychological Strategy of the Tiger Ad and Why It Will Backfire|Adam Hanft|April 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST
His Manichaean friends urged him to take this step, which was rendered easier by the licentious lives of the students at Carthage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8|Various Decent women should not live with licentious husbands in the relation of wife. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)|Ida Husted Harper There is not a single good woman in the book: the officers' wives are licentious, unprincipled, and eaten up with social ambition. Essays on Russian Novelists|William Lyon Phelps There was no hint of the vulgar or licentious pleasures which became the characteristics of love in the eighteenth century. Women of Modern France (Illustrated)|Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940) For him there were left only the idle and licentious diversions of such a court as that in which his father lived. Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete|Lyndon Orr
British Dictionary definitions for licentious
adjectivesexually unrestrained or promiscuous rare showing disregard for convention Derived forms of licentiouslicentiously, adverblicentiousness, nounWord Origin for licentiousC16: from Latin licentiōsus capricious, from licentia licence Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to licentiousabandoned, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved, desirous, disorderly, dissolute, fast, fast and loose, fleshly, impure, incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous |