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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. marked by the appetites and passions of the body;
- Example: "animal instincts"
- Example: "carnal knowledge"
- Example: "fleshly desire"
- Example: "a sensual delight in eating"
- Example: "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"
[syn: animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fleshly \Flesh"ly\, adv.
   In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fleshly \Flesh"ly\ (fl[e^]sh"l[y^]), a. [AS. fl[=ae]scl[imac]c.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly
      bondage." --Denham.
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   2. Animal; not vegetable. --Dryden.
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   3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly
      wisdom." --2 Cor. i. 12.
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            Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm
            And fragile arms.                     --Milton.
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   4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious.
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            Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the
            soul.                                 --1 Pet. ii.
                                                  11.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fleshly
    adj 1: marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal
           instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a
           sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual
           pleasure without vice" [syn: animal(a), carnal,
           fleshly, sensual]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fleshly":
   Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, amorous, animal, animalistic,
   anthropocentric, anthropological, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding,
   bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish,
   carnal, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
   corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, epicurean, erogenic,
   erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal,
   erring, fallen, finite, frail, gamic, goatish, gross,
   gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, hominal, homocentric, horny, hot,
   human, humanistic, hylic, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm,
   ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lay, lecherous, lewd, libidinal,
   libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, luxurious,
   man-centered, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane,
   nonsacred, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene,
   of easy virtue, only human, orgiastic, oversexed, peccable,
   physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal,
   profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, reprobate,
   salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed,
   sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish,
   sybaritic, tellurian, temporal, unangelic, unblessed, unchaste,
   unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy,
   unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified,
   unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, wanton,
   wayward, weak, worldly