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lascivious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ləˈsɪvi.əs/ (General-American)
• ləsĭʹvi.əs
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /-vi.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Meanings

1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
   • Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
   • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone. 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

lasciviously · unlascivious · lasciviousness · overlascivious

Relateds

lasciviency · lascivient · lascivity · lecherous · lascious

Synonyms

lustful · wanton · lewd

Translations (77)

ru блудли́вый (wanton) · ru распу́тный (wanton) · cs lascivní (wanton) · cmn 好色 (wanton) · no vellystig (wanton) · fi epäsiveellinen (wanton) · sh pohotljiv (wanton) · cs smyslný (wanton) · ja 淫蕩な (wanton) · pl lubieżny (wanton) · fa شهوتی (wanton) · tr şehvetli (wanton) · be пажа́длівы (wanton) · fi himokas (wanton) · cs vilný (wanton) · ru распу́щенный (wanton) · sh lascivan (wanton) · da liderlig (wanton) · pl wyuzdany (wanton) · ar شَهْوَانِيّ (wanton) · sq epshor (wanton) · ja 嫌らしい (wanton) · grc μάχλος (wanton) · sk lascívny (wanton) · el λάγνος (wanton) · da lysten (wanton) · ga drúisiúil (wanton) · ru сладостра́стный (wanton) · he תַּאַוְתָנִי (wanton) · mi tūkari (wanton) · tl hitad (wanton) · ga ainmhianach (wanton) · pt lascivo (wanton) · ru похотли́вый (wanton) · sh ласциван (wanton) · ru развра́тный (wanton) · be блудлі́вы (wanton) · ja エッチ (wanton) · mi tīweka (wanton) · sv vällustig (wanton) · de lüstern (wanton) · sv liderlig (wanton) · be распу́сны (wanton) · uk похітли́вий (wanton) · mk похотлив (wanton) · grc λάγνος (wanton) · be юрлі́вы (wanton) · tl malanya (wanton) · pl rozpustny (wanton) · ga macnasach (wanton) · ar غَلِم (wanton) · cs chlípný (wanton) · fi irstas (wanton) · nl wellustig (wanton) · da kåd (wanton) · fi rietas (wanton) · fr lubrique (wanton) · uk хти́вий (wanton) · fi hekumallinen (wanton) · no lidderlig (wanton) · sh похотљив (wanton) · ca lasciu (wanton) · cmn 淫蕩 /淫荡 (wanton) · la salāx (wanton) · ar شَبِق (wanton) · de lasziv (wanton) · ro lasciv (wanton) · la lascīvus (wanton) · ko 음탕하다 (wanton) · ga áilíosach (wanton) · fr lascif (wanton) · es lascivo (wanton) · pl frywolny (wanton) · it lascivo (wanton) · be маркатлі́вы (wanton) · bg похотли́в (wanton) · el ασελγής (wanton)