About The Word Licentious
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Licentious
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What's The Definition Of Licentious?
[adj] lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Licentious: unchaste Related Terms | Find terms related to Licentious: abandoned | amoral | animal | carnal | corrupt | debauched | depraved | disobedient | dissipated | dissolute | fast | fleshly | free | free-living | gallant | gay | go-go | headstrong | heady | high-living | hubristic | immoderate | immoral | incontinent | indulgent | insubordinate | intemperate | irrepressible | irresponsible | lascivious | lawless | lax | lecherous | lewd | libertine | libidinous | loose | lustful | mutinous | nonrestrictive | out of control | out of hand | oversexed | permissive | presuming | presumptuous | profligate | rakehell | rakehellish | rakehelly | rakish | rampant | randy | reinless | relaxed | reprobate | riotous | salacious | satyric | scabrous | self-willed | sensual | unaccountable | unbridled | unchecked | uncoerced | uncompelled | unconstrained | uncontrolled | uncurbed | undisciplined | unforced | ungoverned | uninhibited | unmastered | unmeasured | unmoral | unmuzzled | unprincipled | unreined | unrepressed | unreserved | unrestrained | unrestrictive | unruly | unsubdued | unsuppressed | wanton | wild | wildcat | willful See Also | Licentious In Webster's Dictionary \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F.
licencieux. See {License}.]
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.
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