concupiscent

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UK/kɒnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/US/kɑːnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/US/kənˈkjuːpə.sənt/

adjective

Amorous; lustful.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveconcupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)

comparative more concupiscent · superlative most concupiscent

  1. Amorous; lustful.

    1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?

    2 more examples

    Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

    1922, Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream

    The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night. There’s none of this kind of concupiscent behavior aboard the Nadir, I’m happy to say.

    1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivevigorously passionate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinconcupiscens
  2. Englishconcupiscent

From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).

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Translations

Bulgarian похотлив
  • похотлив (pohotliv)amorous, lustful
Czech smyslný
  • smyslnýamorous, lustful
German wollüstig, lüstern
  • wollüstigamorous, lustful
  • lüsternamorous, lustful
Polish zmysłowy, lubieżny
  • zmysłowyamorous, lustful
  • lubieżnyamorous, lustful
  • pożądliwyamorous, lustful
Spanish concupiscente
  • concupiscenteamorous, lustful
Swedish lystnadsfull, lysten
  • lystnadsfullamorous, lustful
  • lystenamorous, lustful
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APA

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Chicago

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