Carnal

ahd-5
  • adjective. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
  • adjective. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the flesh; hence, flesh-eating; ravenous; bloody.
  • Of the same blood or descent; natural; kindred; german.
  • Pertaining to the flesh or the body, its passions and its appetites; fleshly; sensual; lustful; gross; impure.
  • Not spiritual; merely human; not partaking of anything divine or holy; unregenerate; unsanctified.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
  • adjective. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.
  • adjective. sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
  • adjective. worldly or earthly; temporal
  • adjective. of or relating to the body or flesh
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. marked by the appetites and passions of the body
  • adjective. of or relating to the body or flesh
  • Word Usage
    "If by _carnal_ the Gnostics meant 'sensual,' then, the apostles in denouncing them for rejecting a carnal Jesus, must have held that"