'Lewd' definitions:
Definition of 'lewd'
From: WordNet
adjective
Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]
adjective
Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful]
Definition of 'Lewd'
From: GCIDE
- Lewd \Lewd\ (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. Lewder (-[~e]r); superl. Lewdest.] [OE. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.]
- 1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir. J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. --Acts xvii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lewd'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- bawdy,
- blue,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- coarse,
- concupiscent,
- crude,
- debauched,
- dirty,
- dissolute,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fast,
- Fescennine,
- filthy,
- fleshly,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulsome,
- goatish,
- gross,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hircine,
- horny,
- hot,
- hysteromaniacal,
- improper,
- impure,
- incontinent,
- indecent,
- indelicate,
- ithyphallic,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- libertine,
- libidinous,
- licentious,
- lickerish,
- lubricious,
- lubricous,
- lurid,
- lustful,
- nasty,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- offensive,
- pornographic,
- priapic,
- prurient,
- Rabelaisian,
- randy,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- ribald,
- rude,
- ruttish,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- satyrical,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- sensual,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- smoking-room,
- smutty,
- suggestive,
- sultry,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- unvirtuous,
- vile,
- wild