Licentious

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  • adjective. Lacking moral restraint, especially in sexual conduct.
  • adjective. Ignoring accepted rules or standards, as of prescriptive grammar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by or using license; marked by or indulging too great freedom; overpassing due bounds or limits; excessive.
  • Specifically Unrestrained by law, religion, or morality; wanton; loose; dissolute; libidinous: as, a licentions person; licentious desires.
  • Synonyms Profligate, dissolute, debauched. See list under lascivious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive.
  • adjective. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
  • adjective. Disregarding accepted rules.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
  • Word Usage
    "The matrons and virgins of Babylon freely mingled with the men in licentious banquets; and as they felt the intoxication of wine and love, they gradually, and almost completely, threw aside the encumbrance of dress; ad ultimum ima corporum velamenta projiciunt."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    chaste  modest  
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    Equivalent
    unchaste  
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    abandoned  amoral  animal  broad  carnal