lecherous

lecherous
adj
1. wanton, profligate, abandoned, incontinent, intemperate; dissolute, dissipated, rakehell, degenerate, depraved, decadent, dirty-minded; lewd, lascivious, lubricous, Archaic. lickerish, licentious; prurient, libidinous, salacious, carnal, sensual; swinish, hoggish, piggish, bestial, beastly, brutish; satyric, stayrical, goatish, hircine, ruttish, Sl. horny; priapic, lustful, randy, Sl. hot.
2. suggestive, erotic, lurid, indecent, offensive; vulgar, gross, crude, coarse, dirty, filthy; obscene, blue, pornograhic, Sl. porno, smutty, Sl. raunchy; ribald, bawdy, Fescennine, scurrilous, irreverent.

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  • Lecherous — Lech er*ous, a. Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; excessively lustful; used mostly of men; also, lust provoking. A lecherous thing is wine. Chaucer. {Lech er*ous*ly}, adv. {Lech er*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lecherous — I adjective addicted to lewdness, bawdy, concupiscent, corrupt, debauched, depraved, desirous, dissipated, dissolute, erotic, erotical, fleshly, gluttonous, goatish, immoral, inclined to lewdness, lascivious, lewd, libertine, libidinous,… …   Law dictionary

  • lecherous — c.1300, probably from LECHER (Cf. lecher) + OUS (Cf. ous); or else from rare O.Fr. lecheros. Related: Lecherously; lecherousness …   Etymology dictionary

  • lecherous — libidinous, lascivious, lustful, lewd, wanton, *licentious, libertine Analogous words: dissolute, *abandoned, reprobate, profligate: degenerate, corrupt (see VICIOUS) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • lecherous — [adj] lustful, lewd carnal, concupiscent, corrupt, fast*, hot and heavy*, incontinent, lascivious, libertine, libidinous, licentious, low down*, lubricous, prurient, raunchy*, salacious, satyric, sensual, unchaste, wanton; concepts 372,401 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

  • lecherous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire. DERIVATIVES lecherously adverb lecherousness noun. ORIGIN Old French lecheros, from lechier live in debauchery or gluttony ; related to LICK(Cf. ↑lick) …   English terms dictionary

  • lecherous — [lech′ər əs] adj. [ME < OFr lecheros] given to, characterized by, or stimulating to lechery; lustful lecherously adv. lecherousness n …   English World dictionary

  • lecherous — lech|er|ous [ˈletʃərəs] adj a lecherous man shows his sexual desire for women in a way that is unpleasant or annoying ▪ a lecherous old man >lecherously adv …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • lecherous — [[t]le̱tʃərəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe a man as lecherous, you disapprove of him because he behaves towards women in a way which shows he is only interested in them sexually. ...lecherous old men offering sweets at …   English dictionary

  • lecherous — lecherously, adv. lecherousness, n. /lech euhr euhs/, adj. 1. given to or characterized by lechery; lustful. 2. erotically suggestive; inciting to lust: lecherous photographs. [1275 1325; ME < MF lechereus. See LECHER, OUS] * * * …   Universalium

  • lecherous — adjective a lecherous man is always thinking about sex or trying to get sexual pleasure lecherously adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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