Meanings
lothario1
Lothario2
plural Lotharios · alternative lothario
- A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.
2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN2 more examples
High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Schools and Schoolmasters”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 437He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.
1886, Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties […], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published 1899, →OCLCSynonyms: lady-killer, Casanova, benedick, cad, drabber, fuck boy, fuck-boy, fuckboy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
Origin
Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 好色之徒
- 好色之徒 (hàosèzhītú)seducer
Czech lamač dívčích srdcí, svůdník
- lamač dívčích srdcíseducer
- svůdníkseducer
Dutch verleider, rokkenjager
- verleiderseducer
- rokkenjagerseducer
Finnish naistenmies
- naistenmiesseducer
French coureur de jupons, don Juan
- coureur de juponsseducer
- don Juanseducer
German Don Juan, Schürzenjäger
- Don Juanseducer
- Schürzenjägerseducer
Latin femellarius, mulierarius
- femellariusseducer
- mulierariusseducer
Polish uwodziciel, casanova
- uwodzicielseducer
- casanovaseducer
Portuguese sedutor
- sedutorseducer
Russian ловела́с, бабник
- ловела́с (lovelás)seducer
- бабник (babnik)seducer
Spanish seductor
- seductorseducer
Cite this entry
lothario. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lothario
“lothario.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lothario. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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