"What's the difference between erotic and kinky?" "Erotic is when you use a feather and kinky is when you use a whole chicken."
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Erotic
//ɪˈɹɑtɪk//
Synonyms for "erotic" (143 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Adjective(16 words)
Related words (71)
Adjective(28 words)
licentiouslubriciouslustfulnaughtypornographicprurientracyrandyraunchyribaldrisquérousingsalaciousseductivesexualsmuttyspicysteamystimulatingsuggestive
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Adjective(1 words)
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5 entriesRelated terms
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
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5 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
98 translations across 59 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- erotik adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐρωτικός adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Arabic
4 entries- جِنْسِيّ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- شَبَقِيّ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- شَهْوَانِيّ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- عِشْقِيّ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Asturian
1 entries- eróticu adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- erotik adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- şəhvani adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Belarusian
1 entries- эраты́чны adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ероти́чен adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Catalan
1 entries- eròtic adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 引起性欲的 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- 性愛的 /性爱的 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- 色情的 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Czech
1 entries- erotický adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Danish
1 entries- erotisk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Dutch
1 entries- erotisch adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Esperanto
1 entries- erotika adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Estonian
1 entries- erootiline adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Finnish
2 entries- aistillinen adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- eroottinen adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
French
1 entries- érotique adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Friulian
1 entries- erotic adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Galician
1 entries- erótico adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Georgian
1 entries- ეროტიკული adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
German
1 entries- erotisch adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Greek
1 entries- ερωτικός adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Hebrew
2 entries- אֶרוֹטִי adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- אֶרוֹטִית adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Hindi
3 entries- इश्क़िया adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- कामुक adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- शृंगारिक adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Hungarian
1 entries- erotikus adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Icelandic
1 entries- erótískur adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Ido
1 entries- erotika adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Indonesian
1 entries- erotis adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Interlingua
1 entries- erotic adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Irish
2 entries- anghrách adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- earótach adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Italian
1 entries- erotico adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Japanese
4 entries- エロ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- エロい adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- エロチックな adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- 色っぽい adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Korean
3 entries- 사랑적 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- 성적 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- 에로 adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Latvian
1 entries- erotisks adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Lithuanian
2 entries- erotinis adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- erotiškas adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Macedonian
1 entries- еротски adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Manx
1 entries- an-ghraagh adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Marathi
1 entries- कामुक adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Norman
1 entries- érotique adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- erotîk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- pornografîk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- seksî adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- şehwetî adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- erotisk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- erotisk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Occitan
1 entries- erotic adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Persian
3 entries- اروتیک adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- اروتیکی adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- شهوانی adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Polish
1 entries- erotyczny adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Portuguese
1 entries- erótico adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Romanian
1 entries- erotic adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Russian
2 entries- эроти́ческий adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- эроти́чный adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- drùis-mhiannach adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- eròtičan adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- èrotskī adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- еро̀тичан adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- ѐротскӣ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Slovak
1 entries- erotický adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Slovene
1 entries- erótičen adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Spanish
2 entries- erótico adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- sicalíptico adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Swedish
1 entries- erotisk adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Turkish
4 entries- erosal adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- erosçu adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- erotik adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- kösnül adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ероти́чний adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Urdu
2 entries- شہوانی adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- عشقیہ adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Uzbek
2 entries- erotik adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- shahvoniy adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Vietnamese
3 entries- khiêu dâm adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- tình dục adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
- tình ái adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Yiddish
1 entries- עראָטיש adj (tending to arouse sexual desire)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
She was an intelligent woman with an erotic aura.
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Is it possible that a 22 year old girl never had erotic dreams?
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I'm looking for erotic science fiction novels.
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