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sensual
adjective
1 sensual
Marked by the appetites and passions of the body:
— A sensual delight in eating.
— Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
synonyms: animal, carnal, fleshly.
Roget 954:
intemperate,
inabstinent†;
sensual,
self-indulgent;
voluptuous,
luxurious,
licentious,
wild,
dissolute,
rakish,
fast,
debauched.
brutish,
crapulous†,
swinish,
piggish.
Paphian,
Epicurean,
Sybaritical;
bred in the lap of luxury,
nursed in the lap of luxury;
indulged,
pampered;
full-fed,
high-fed.
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Roget 374a:
sexy,
erotic,
sexual,
carnal,
sensual.
hot,
horny,
randy,
rutting;
passionate,
lusty,
hot-blooded,
libidinous;
up,
in the mood.
homosexual,
gay,
lesbian,
bisexual.
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Roget 377:
enjoying
etc.
v.;
luxurious,
voluptuous,
sensual,
comfortable,
cosy,
snug,
in comfort,
at ease.
pleasant,
agreeable
etc.
829.
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Roget 829:
causing pleasure
etc.
v.;
laetificant†;
pleasure-giving,
pleasing,
pleasant,
pleasurable;
agreeable;
grateful,
gratifying;
leef†,
lief,
acceptable;
welcome,
welcome as the roses in May;
welcomed;
favorite;
to one's taste,
to one's mind,
to one's liking;
satisfactory
etc.
(good)
648.
refreshing;
comfortable;
cordial;
genial;
glad,
gladsome;
sweet,
delectable,
nice,
dainty;
delicate,
delicious;
dulcet;
luscious
etc.
396;
palatable
etc.
394;
luxurious,
voluptuous;
sensual
etc.
377.
[of people]
attractive
etc.
615;
inviting,
prepossessing,
engaging;
winning,
winsome;
taking,
fascinating,
captivating,
killing;
seducing,
seductive;
heart-robbing,
alluring,
enticing;
appetizing
etc.
(exciting)
824;
cheering
etc.
836;
bewitching;
enchanting,
entrancing,
enravishing†.
charming;
delightful,
felicitous,
exquisite;
lovely
etc.
(beautiful)
845;
ravishing,
rapturous;
heartfelt,
thrilling,
ecstatic;
beatic†;
beatific;
seraphic;
empyrean;
elysian
etc.
(heavenly)
981.
palmy,
halcyon,
Saturnian.
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2 sensual
Sexually exciting or gratifying:
— Sensual excesses.
synonym: sultry.
Moby thesaurus: Cyprian, Cyrenaic, abandoned, amorous, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, appetitive, banausic, bawdy, bent on pleasure, bodily, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, debauched, dirty, dissipated, dissolute, earthy, epicurean, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal, fleshly, gamic, goatish, gynecomaniacal, hedonistic, heterosexual, hircine, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, irreligious, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loose, lubricious, lubricous, luscious, lush, lustful, luxurious, luxury-loving, mundane, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oversexed, physical, pleasure-bent, pleasure-seeking, potent, priapic, procreative, profligate, prurient, rakish, randy, salacious, satyric, sensational, sensatory, sensitive, sensorial, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, straight, sybaritic, temporal, unchaste, undersexed, unspiritual, venereal, voluptuous, wanton, worldly ... show more.
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