'Licentious' definitions:
Definition of 'licentious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"
Definition of 'Licentious'
From: GCIDE
- Licentious \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F. licencieux. See License.]
- 1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. [1913 Webster]
- A wit that no licentious pertness knows. --Savage. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous; ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose; sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral. [1913 Webster] -- {Li*cen"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Li*cen"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'licentious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- amoral,
- animal,
- carnal,
- corrupt,
- debauched,
- depraved,
- disobedient,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- fast,
- fleshly,
- free,
- free-living,
- gallant,
- gay,
- go-go,
- headstrong,
- heady,
- high-living,
- hubristic,
- immoderate,
- immoral,
- incontinent,
- indulgent,
- insubordinate,
- intemperate,
- irrepressible,
- irresponsible,
- lascivious,
- lawless,
- lax,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- libidinous,
- loose,
- lustful,
- mutinous,
- nonrestrictive,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- oversexed,
- permissive,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- profligate,
- rakehell,
- rakehellish,
- rakehelly,
- rakish,
- rampant,
- randy,
- reinless,
- relaxed,
- reprobate,
- riotous,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- scabrous,
- self-willed,
- sensual,
- unaccountable,
- unbridled,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- unforced,
- ungoverned,
- uninhibited,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmoral,
- unmuzzled,
- unprincipled,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsuppressed,
- wanton,
- wild,
- wildcat,
- willful