Carnal
/ˈkɑɹnəl/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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; temporal.
- 3 Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Adjective
- 1 marked by the appetites and passions of the body wordnet
- 2 of or relating to the body or flesh wordnet
Example
More examples"These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also."
Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).