prurient as an adjective: - 1
prurient
adjective
1 prurient
Characterized by lust:
— Prurient literature.
— Prurient thoughts.
synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious.
Roget 455:
curious,
inquisitive,
burning with curiosity,
overcurious;
inquiring
etc.
461;
prying,
snoopy,
nosy,
peering;
prurient;
inquisitorial,
inquisitory†;
curious as a cat;
agape
etc.
(expectant)
507.
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Roget 961:
impure;
unclean
etc.
(dirty)
653;
not to be mentioned to ears polite;
immodest,
shameless;
indecorous,
indelicate,
indecent;
Fescennine;
loose,
risque [Fr.],
coarse,
gross,
broad,
free,
equivocal,
smutty,
fulsome,
ribald,
obscene,
bawdy,
pornographic.
concupiscent,
prurient,
lickerish†,
rampant,
lustful;
carnal,
carnal-minded;
lewd,
lascivious,
lecherous,
libidinous,
erotic,
ruttish,
salacious;
Paphian;
voluptuous;
goatish,
must,
musty.
unchaste,
light,
wanton,
licentious,
debauched,
dissolute;
of loose character,
of easy virtue;
frail,
gay,
riggish†,
incontinent,
meretricious,
rakish,
gallant,
dissipated;
no better than she should be;
on the town,
on the streets,
on the pave,
on the loose.
adulterous,
incestuous,
bestial.
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Moby thesaurus: Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, agape, agog, all agog, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, athirst, bawdy, blue, burning with curiosity, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, consumed with curiosity, consumed with desire, coveting, craving, crude, curious, debauched, devoured by desire, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fervid, filthy, fleshly, foul, ghoulish, goatish, gossipy, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hungering, hungry, hysteromaniacal, indecent, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itching, itchy, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, mad with lust, morbid, morbidly curious, nymphomaniacal, obscene, open-eyed, openmouthed, orgasmic, orgastic, overcurious, passionate, pornographic, priapic, quizzical, rakehell, randy, ribald, ruttish, salacious, satyric, scopophiliac, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, suggestive, supercurious, thirsting, thirsty, titillating, unsatisfied, vile, voluptuous, voyeuristic, vulgar ... show more.
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