lustful
Craving carnal pleasure
Lustful describes intense sexual desire or appetite.
A lustful glance or lustful thoughts suggest someone consumed by physical attraction.
The word carries moral weight—it implies desire that's excessive or inappropriate, not merely healthy attraction.
He cast a lustful eye at his neighbor's wife.
Showing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
concupiscent · licentious · wanton · sensual · erotic · aroused · titillated · randy
Intensely emotional or enthusiastic
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- burningCombustion in progress
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
torrid · feverish · consuming · insatiable · voracious · ravenous · obsessive · overwhelming
Not allowed
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- illicitProhibited by law
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
lechery · debauchery · sinful · immoral · indecent · shameless · wicked · temptation
lecherous
Showing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
prurient · concupiscent · licentious · wanton · sensual · erotic · aroused · titillated · randy · horny
passionate
Intensely emotional or enthusiastic
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- burningCombustion in progress
fiery · torrid · feverish · consuming · insatiable · voracious · ravenous · obsessive · overwhelming · uncontrollable
forbidden
Not allowed
fornication · lechery · debauchery · sinful · immoral · indecent · shameless · wicked · temptation · transgression
longing
Intense, persistent desire
hunger · thirst · urge · ache · pining · covetous · desirous · infatuated · smitten · besotted
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- desireyearn, yearning, crave, craving, wanting
- seductionseduction, seductive, allure, beguilement, enticement
- eroticaerotic, erotic literature, eroticism, erotica, sensuality
- sexualizedsexualized, erotica, pornographic, explicit, provocative
- erotic poetryerotic poetry, love poetry, love poems, love sonnets, Sappho
lustfulfrigid
Extremely and intensely cold
passionless · asexual · undersexed · cold · sexless