Word Meanings - LICENTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage. 2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd;

Additional info about word: LICENTIOUS

1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage. 2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak. Syn. -- Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous; ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose; sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral. -- Li*cen"tious*ly, adv. -- Li*cen"tious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LICENTIOUS)

• Abandoned
• Profligate
• wicked
• vicious
• unprincipled
• reprobate
• incorrigible
• sinful
• graceless
• demoralized
• dissolute
• depraved
• bad
• licentious
• corrupt
• Carnal
• Fleshly
• sensual
• selfindulgent
• animal
• coarse
• base
• worldly
• impure
• libidinous
• secular
• Dissolute
• profligate
• loose
• wanton
• Lax
• Loose
• vague
• incoherent
• remiss
• flabby
• slack
• Unbound
• detached
• flowing
• scattered
• sparse
• incompact
• inexact
• rambling

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LICENTIOUS)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to LICENTIOUS)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."