Carnal

English

Adjective

Carnal (comparative more Carnal, superlative most Carnal)

1. relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
2. worldly or earthly; temporal
3. of or relating to the body or flesh

Adverbs for Carnal

loosely; sensually; intemperately; luxuriously; voluptuously; grossly; shamelessly; wantonly; rakishly; bestially; erotically; indecently; self-indulgently; dissipatedly; intemperately; licentiously; coarsely; unbelievably; obscenely; evilly; sinfully; vilely; detestably; odiously.

Adjectives for Carnal

haunting; joyous; lively; merry; rustic; round; ancient; swelling; warbled.

Verbs for Carnal

bellow—; bless in—; burst into—; celebrate with —s; chorus—; compose—; dance to—; exercise—; flute—; hallow—; join in—; listen to —s; practise—; praise—; revive—; scream—; warble—; —cheers; —encourages; —expresses; —rings out; — sounds; —survives; —warms.

Synonyms for Carnal

earthy, fleshly, concupiscent, lascivious, vulgar, worldly, lustful, sensual, physical.

Antonyms for Carnal

spiritual, chaste, ethereal, intellectual.

Derived terms

• carnal knowledge

Related terms

• incarnate
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Thesaurus

amorous, animal, animalistic, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal, erring, fallen, fleshly, frail, gamic, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm, ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, material, materialistic, mundane, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, of easy virtue, orgiastic, oversexed, pandemic, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal, profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish, temporal, terrestrial, unangelic, unchaste, unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, wayward, weak, worldly

Etymology

From Middle English < Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh (Medieval Latin natural, of the same blood or descent)”) < caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)nəl

Translations

relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites

Bulgarian: похотлив (bg) Catalan: carnal (ca) Esperanto: fivolupta (eo)

French: charnel (fr) Greek: σαρκικός (el) (sarkikόs) Russian: чувственный (ru), плотский (ru)

worldly or earthly; temporal

Russian: земной (ru), мирской (ru)

of or relating to the body or flesh

Bulgarian: плътски (bg), телесен (bg) Catalan: carnal (ca)

Russian: телесный (ru), плотский (ru)