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carnal

adj
/ˈkɑɹnəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- (“meat, flesh”) + -al.

  1. derived from carnālis

Definitions

  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.

    • At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.

  2. Worldly or earthly

    Worldly or earthly; temporal.

  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

The neighborhood

Derived

carnalism, carnalist, carnality, carnalization, carnalize, carnal knowledge, carnally, carnalness, hypercarnal, noncarnal, uncarnal

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carnal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA