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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sexful en · ADJ

Etymology

From sex + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Full of sexual desire, longing, or activity; sexual.
    • Mark's father . . . was an actor. . . . After perishing as a Christian martyr in an epic about the last sexful days of the Roman Empire, he would come back to life only to be killed again halfway through a Western filmed in Spain. 1990, Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire, →ISBN, page 12:
    • The nature of the human soul is sexful, not sexless. It is full of the qualities of the best of both sexes. All men should have some feminine qualities, as all women should have some masculine qualities. 2005, Richard V. Shriver, The Return of Gabriel: The Gabriel Letters, Book II:
    • [S]he had heard it sung by two grey-haired men in the Papal choir in Rome, soprano voices of a rarer and more radiant timbre than any woman's sexful voice. 1893, George Moore, Evelyn Innes (2010 reprint by Forgotten Books), p. 232

Forms

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more sexful Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most sexful Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

sexless