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单词 libidinous
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Definition of libidinous in English:

libidinous

adjective lɪˈbɪdɪnəsləˈbɪdənəs
  • Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful.

    libidinous teenagers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
    • The result is an invigorating, boisterous look at a group of wildly cynical and libidinous college brats.
    • I felt rather buoyed up by this and confirmed in my occasionally libidinous ways.
    • If the process occurs too early or too late, if it is too strict or too libidinous, dire consequences will result.
    • Conceivably the room had not yet fully recovered from the assault on their libidinous sensibilities.
    • High court sentences for lewd and libidinous behaviour, which includes some sex offences against children, also fell, from over five years to four.
    • When it first came out, swing was libidinous, hedonistic devil music.
    • She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain.
    • The angry young man had turned into a disillusioned old man living on libidinous memories.
    • In a culture famous for its libidinous ways, carnival is the wildest time of all.
    • That should be enough to stem our sometimes inexplicably ludicrous and potentially harmful libidinous urges.
    Synonyms
    lustful, lecherous, lascivious, lewd, carnal
    erotic, sexual, sensual, venereal, hot, fleshly, voluptuous
    salacious, prurient, licentious, libertine, lubricious, dissolute, debauched, depraved, degenerate, decadent, dissipated, wanton, promiscuous, immoral, unchaste, unvirtuous, loose, impure, intemperate, abandoned, incontinent, gross, ruttish, goatish, wolfish
    informal horny
    British informal randy
    rare concupiscent, lickerish

Derivatives

  • libidinously

  • adverb
  • libidinousness

  • noun
    • The city's Presbyterian propriety and Calvinist self-denial combined to outlaw libidinousness as an affront to polite society.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin libidinosus, from libido 'desire, lust'.

 
 

Definition of libidinous in US English:

libidinous

adjectiveləˈbidənəsləˈbɪdənəs
  • Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful.

    libidinous teenagers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the process occurs too early or too late, if it is too strict or too libidinous, dire consequences will result.
    • She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain.
    • The result is an invigorating, boisterous look at a group of wildly cynical and libidinous college brats.
    • In a culture famous for its libidinous ways, carnival is the wildest time of all.
    • High court sentences for lewd and libidinous behaviour, which includes some sex offences against children, also fell, from over five years to four.
    • That should be enough to stem our sometimes inexplicably ludicrous and potentially harmful libidinous urges.
    • Conceivably the room had not yet fully recovered from the assault on their libidinous sensibilities.
    • When it first came out, swing was libidinous, hedonistic devil music.
    • I felt rather buoyed up by this and confirmed in my occasionally libidinous ways.
    • Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
    • The angry young man had turned into a disillusioned old man living on libidinous memories.
    Synonyms
    lustful, lecherous, lascivious, lewd, carnal

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin libidinosus, from libido ‘desire, lust’.

 
 
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