Prurient

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious.
  • adj. Characterized by an inordinate interest in sex: prurient thoughts.
  • adj. Arousing or appealing to an inordinate interest in sex: prurient literature.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
  • adj. Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
  • adj. Curious, especially inappropriately so.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Itching; having an eager desire or longing for something.
  • Inclined to lascivious thought; of an unclean habit of mind; sensual.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by lust
    • Equivalent
    sexy   
    Form
    prurient interest    prurience   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    itching    lustful    lascivious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    salacious    off-color    sniggering    indelicate    stylistic    hard-featured    morbid    profane    ghoulish    made-up   
     
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