What is the definition of carnal?

Answer 1

1. relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites 2. worldly or earthly; temporal 3. of or relating to the body or flesh. 1. Relating to somebody's physical needs or appetites, especially as

contrasted with spiritual or intellectual qualities (formal) -

"music is the only sensual pleasure without vice".

2. Relating to or consisting sensual needs of the body, given to sensual

indulgence - "carnal remains".

3. Worldly or earthly; temporal - "a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings".

4. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

5. Being in the natural state - unregenerate; animal instincts; fleshly

desire.

Words beginning with "carnal": carnalities, carnality, carnallite,

carnallites, carnally.

Hyphenated usage beginning with "carnal": Carnal-minded, Carnal-mindedness.

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 <a slave to carnal

desires>. fleshly is less derogatory than carnal <a 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>.