Synonyms for sensual
ˈsɛn ʃu əl

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1. animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual(adj)

   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"

   Antonyms:
   cold, mental

2. sensual, sultry(adj)

   sexually exciting or gratifying

   "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance"

   Synonyms:
   sulphurous, sulfurous, stifling, animal(a), fleshly, carnal, sultry

   Antonyms:
   cold, mental

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1. sensual

   A brutish man simply follows his animal instincts, without special inclination to do harm; the brutal have always a spirit of malice and cruelty. Brute has no special character, except as indicating what a brute might possess; much the same is true of animal, except that animal leans more to the side of sensuality, brute to that of force, as appears in the familiar phrase "brute force." Hunger is an animal appetite; a brute impulse suddenly prompts one to strike a blow in anger. Bestial, in modern usage, implies an intensified and degrading animalism. Any supremacy of the animal or brute instincts over the intellectual and spiritual in man is base and vile. Beastly refers largely to the outward and visible consequences of excess; as, beastly drunkenness. Compare ANIMAL.

   Synonyms:
   animal, base, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, ignorant, imbruted, insensible, lascivious, sottish, stolid, stupid, swinish, unintellectual, unspiritual, vile

   Antonyms:
   elevated, enlightened, exalted, grand, great, humane, intellectual, intelligent, noble, refined

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1. sensual

   Synonyms:
   carnal, fleshly, animal, voluptuous, lewd

   Antonyms:
   spiritual, intellectual, selfdenying, abstinent, abstemious, continent, ethereal, ascetic

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1. sensual(a.)

   Synonyms:
   carnal, fleshly, unspiritual

2. sensual(a.)

   Synonyms:
   voluptuous, luxurious

3. sensual(a.)

   Synonyms:
   lewd, dissolute, licentious

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1. sensual(a)

   Synonyms:
   unspiritual, carnal, fleshly, sensuous, voluptuous, luxurious, sybaritic, wanton, licentious, self-indulgent

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1. List of paraphrases for "sensual":

   sensuous, sultry

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1. C. C. Colton:

   Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

2. Haniel Long:

   In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

3. Ludwig van Beethoven:

   Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

4. Caroline Castigliano:

   In the evening... that’s their friends, I think Freya Rose will change. Then I think Freya Rose will get into something much more slinky … lovely and sensual and in a totally different way, i think Freya Rose will have a really low backless dress … really showing off Freya Rose fabulous figure.

5. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   After the extended period of heat and dry weather, comes the first rain shower of the season creating an exquisite eloquent fragrance in the air - an earthy sweet smell that permeates and floats all around us, refreshing and rejuvenating our lives. I love that powerful seductive scent - emanating from the long awaited sensual union of soft and gentle rain drops with dry and thirsty waiting ground, instantaneously instigating an intense intimacy in the air. This elegant enchanting fragrance is called "Petrichor"; a composite word from Greek language, where "Petra" means ‘the stone’, and "Ichor" means 'the fluid that flows in the veins of the Gods' per Greek Mythology. In my view, Petrichor is the most elegant and divine perfume that must be a gift from Supreme Power to us. If my life were a perfume, I would surely like her to smell like Petrichor, that exquisite earthy fragrance after the first rain.

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