Word Meanings - LEWD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.
Additional info about word: LEWD
1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies. 2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. Southey 3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous. Dryden. 4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language. Syn. -- Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched. -- Lewd"ly, adv. -- Lewd"ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEWD)
- Lascivious
- Lustful
- libidinous
- lewd
- lecherous
- wanton
- Obscene
- Impure
- immodest
- indecent
- four
- indelicate
- filthy
- disgusting
- foul-mouthed
- Sensual
- Carnal
- fleshly
- animal
- voluptuous
Related words: (words related to LEWD)
- CARNALIST
A sensualist. Burton. - 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. - CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
Grossness of mind. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - LECHEROUS
Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n. - SENSUAL
1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, - INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - SENSUALISM
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner. - WANTONNESS
The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as - FOUL-MOUTHED
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison. - CARNALLITE
A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt. - CARNAL-MINDED
Worldly-minded. - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - 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."