fleshly
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
fleshly
adj 1: marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal
instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a
sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual
pleasure without vice" [syn: {animal(a)}, {carnal},
{fleshly}, {sensual}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fleshly \Flesh"ly\ (fl[e^]sh"l[y^]), a. [AS. fl[=ae]scl[imac]c.]
1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly
bondage." --Denham.
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2. Animal; not vegetable. --Dryden.
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3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly
wisdom." --2 Cor. i. 12.
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Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm
And fragile arms. --Milton.
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4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious.
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Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the
soul. --1 Pet. ii.
11.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fleshly":
Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, amorous, animal, animalistic,
anthropocentric, anthropological, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding,
bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish,
carnal, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, epicurean, erogenic,
erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal,
erring, fallen, finite, frail, gamic, goatish, gross,
gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, hominal, homocentric, horny, hot,
human, humanistic, hylic, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm,
ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lay, lecherous, lewd, libidinal,
libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, luxurious,
man-centered, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane,
nonsacred, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene,
of easy virtue, only human, orgiastic, oversexed, peccable,
physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal,
profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, reprobate,
salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed,
sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish,
sybaritic, tellurian, temporal, unangelic, unblessed, unchaste,
unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy,
unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified,
unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, wanton,
wayward, weak, worldly
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