fleshly
/ˈflɛʃli
/adjective (fleshlier, fleshliest)
1Relating to human desire or bodily appetites; sensual: fleshly pleasures...
- Christianity had a deep animus against bodily or fleshly pleasures, seeing these as corrupt and sinful consequences of our fallen state.
- Shortly before I met you I was this cold-blooded animal engulfed in murder and fleshly desires.
- Introduce it to an enemy position and they'd find themselves overcome with fleshly desires.
Synonyms
carnal, sexual, sensual, erotic, lustful, lascivious, libidinous, lecherous, licentious, lewd, prurient, salacious, coarse, physical, animal, bestial, gross, lubricious, venereal
2Having an actual physical presence.In Moon in a Tree, ‘being’ is both phantom and fleshly, fantasized and actual....
- He clarifies what he means by asserting that in the New Testament the word ‘flesh’ refers simply to our physical fleshly body, and not our sinful nature.
- The problem is not with the physical, fleshly nature of our being.
Synonyms
physical, bodily, corporeal, corporal, mortal;
material, concrete, earthly, worldly, mundane, of this world, real, actual, tangible, substantial
rare somatic
Origin
Old English flǣsclic (see flesh, -ly1).
- accidentalism
- accidentalist
- accidentality
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose
- accidentalness
- accidental point
- accident and emergency
- accident black spot
- accident compensation
- accident damage
- accidented
- accidential
- accidentiality
- accident inquiry
- accident investigation
- accident investigator
- accident neurosis
- accident-prone
- accident-proneness
- accident record
- accidents will happen in the best regulated families
- accidia
- accidie
- accidious