1.
[syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prurient \Pru"ri*ent\, a. [L. pruries, -entis, p. pr. of prurire
to itch. Cf. Freeze.]
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious
curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object
to object of illicit attraction. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prurient
adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces
of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful
nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a
salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious,
lustful, prurient, salacious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "prurient":
Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, agape, agog, all agog, animal,
aphrodisiomaniacal, athirst, bawdy, blue, burning with curiosity,
carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
consumed with curiosity, consumed with desire, coveting, craving,
crude, curious, debauched, devoured by desire, dirty, ejaculatory,
erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fervid, filthy, fleshly,
foul, ghoulish, goatish, gossipy, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny,
hot, hot-blooded, hungering, hungry, hysteromaniacal, indecent,
inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itching, itchy, ithyphallic,
lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish,
loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, mad with lust,
morbid, morbidly curious, nymphomaniacal, obscene, open-eyed,
openmouthed, orgasmic, orgastic, overcurious, passionate,
pornographic, priapic, quizzical, rakehell, randy, ribald, ruttish,
salacious, satyric, scopophiliac, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved,
sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, suggestive, supercurious, thirsting,
thirsty, titillating, unsatisfied, vile, voluptuous, voyeuristic,
vulgar