Carnal



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

Carnal Art transforms the body into language

• adj.肉体的, 肉欲的
• ［英］ adj.肉体的, 肉欲的 ( fleshly; sensual)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French carnel, charnel, from Late Latin carnalis, from Latin carn-, caro flesh; akin to Greek keirein to cut — more at shear
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites
  • b. marked by sexuality <carnal love
• 2. bodily, corporeal <seen with carnal eyes
• 3.
  • a. temporal <carnal weapons
  • b. worldly carnal mind
• ? carnality noun
• ? carnally adverb
• Synonyms:
  • carnal, fleshly, sensual, animal mean having a relation to the body. carnal may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an action or manifestation of a person's lower nature slave to carnal desires. fleshly is less derogatory than carnal saint who had experienced fleshly temptations. sensual may apply to any gratification of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with absence of the spiritual or intellectual<fleshpots providing sensual delights. animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the rational nature of a person<led a mindless animal existence.

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