ruttish
Driven by desire
Ruttish means lustful or sexually aroused, from rut—the mating season of deer and other animals.
The word suggests animal-like sexual urgency: He gets ruttish after a few drinks.
Literary and somewhat old-fashioned, it carries a faintly comic or disapproving tone.
Showing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- concupiscentStrongly desiring, especially carnally
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
salacious · randy · horny · lewd · wanton · goatish · hot-blooded · amorous
Resembling a savage creature
- feralWild after domestication
- primalFirst in origin
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- beastlySavagely cruel or unpleasant
goatlike · in heat · creaturely · instinctual · raw · visceral · savage · untamed
Without any restraint
- uninhibitedFree from self-censorship
- licentiousSexually unrestrained behavior
- libertineOne lacking moral restraint
- wantonDeliberately cruel without reason
dissolute · debauched · uncontrolled · immoderate · unchecked · intemperate · rampant · abandoned
lecherous
Showing excessive sexual desire
- libidinousHaving strong carnal desires
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- concupiscentStrongly desiring, especially carnally
prurient · salacious · randy · horny · lewd · wanton · goatish · hot-blooded · amorous · passionate
bestial
Resembling a savage creature
beastly · goatlike · in heat · creaturely · instinctual · raw · visceral · savage · untamed · wild
unbridled
Without any restraint
- uninhibitedFree from self-censorship
- licentiousSexually unrestrained behavior
- libertineOne lacking moral restraint
wanton · dissolute · debauched · uncontrolled · immoderate · unchecked · intemperate · rampant · abandoned · profligate
ruttishfrigid
Extremely and intensely cold
asexual · cold · passionless · undesiring · dispassionate
- rutting seasonMammalian breeding period