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lascivious adjective [ ləˈsɪvɪəs ]

• feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.
• "he gave her a lascivious wink"
Similar: lecherous, lewd, lustful, licentious, libidinous, goatish, salacious, wanton, lubricious, prurient, dirty, smutty, filthy, naughty, suggestive, indecent, ribald, debauched, depraved, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated, unchaste, loose, horny, blue, randy, concupiscent, lickerish,
Opposite: puritanical, ascetic,
Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin lasciviosus, from Latin lascivia ‘lustfulness’, from lascivus ‘lustful, wanton’.


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