"carnal" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkɑɹnəl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-carnal.wav Forms: more carnal [comparative], most carnal [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)ker-|id=cut}}, {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|la|carnālis||fleshly, of the flesh}} Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)
  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities. Translations (relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites): جَسَدُيّ (jasaduyy) (Arabic), плътски (plǎtski) (Bulgarian), carnal (Catalan), fivolupta (Esperanto), himokas (Finnish), charnel (French), fleischlich (German), körperlich (German), sexuell (German), sinnlich (German), σαρκικός (sarkikós) (Greek), flǣsċlīċ (Old English), تنانه (tanâne) (Persian), cielesny (Polish), carnal (Portuguese), чувственный (čuvstvennyj) (Russian), плотский (plotskij) (Russian), carnal (Spanish), sexual (Spanish), concupiscente (Spanish), libidinoso (Spanish), cnawdol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-carnal-en-adj-723vQ1gt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 7 1 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 94 6 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 1 14 1 0 29 4 1 1 0 0 4 27 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 74 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 73 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 73 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 94 6 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 73 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 93 7 0 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 78 14 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 69 26 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 92 8 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 82 18 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 73 21 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 66 18 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 74 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 93 7 0 Disambiguation of 'relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites': 98 2 0
  2. Worldly or earthly; temporal. Translations (worldly or earthly; temporal): светски (svetski) (Bulgarian), maailmallinen (english: worldly) (Finnish), maallinen (english: earthly) (Finnish), ajallinen [temporal] (Finnish), diesseitig (German), flǣsċlīċ (Old English), carnal (Portuguese), земно́й (zemnój) (Russian), мирской (mirskoj) (Russian), terrenal (Spanish), mortal (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-carnal-en-adj-i-z2Gfes Disambiguation of 'worldly or earthly; temporal': 0 100 0
  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh. Translations (of or relating to the body or flesh): телесен (telesen) (Bulgarian), carnal (Catalan), ruumiillinen (english: relating to the body) (Finnish), lihallinen (english: relating to the flesh) (Finnish), 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (leikeins) (Gothic), flǣsċlīċ (Old English), carnal (Portuguese), телесный (telesnyj) (Russian), плотский (plotskij) (Russian), carnal (Spanish), corporal (Spanish), cnawdol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-carnal-en-adj-62TCvdEJ Disambiguation of 'of or relating to the body or flesh': 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: incarnate, incarnation, reincarnate, reincarnation

Alternative forms

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)ker-",
        "id": "cut"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "carnālis",
        "4": "",
        "5": "fleshly, of the flesh"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more carnal",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most carnal",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "incarnate"
    },
    {
      "word": "incarnation"
    },
    {
      "word": "reincarnate"
    },
    {
      "word": "reincarnation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:",
          "text": "At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Worldly or earthly; temporal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Worldly",
          "worldly"
        ],
        [
          "temporal",
          "temporal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the body or flesh."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "flesh",
          "flesh"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɑɹnəl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)nəl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jasaduyy",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "جَسَدُيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "plǎtski",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "плътски"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "fivolupta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "himokas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "charnel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "fleischlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "körperlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "sexuell"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "sinnlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sarkikós",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "σαρκικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "flǣsċlīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "tanâne",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "تنانه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "cielesny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čuvstvennyj",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "чувственный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plotskij",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "плотский"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "sexual"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "concupiscente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "libidinoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites",
      "word": "cnawdol"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "svetski",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "светски"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "worldly",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "maailmallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "earthly",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "maallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "tags": [
        "temporal"
      ],
      "word": "ajallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "diesseitig"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "flǣsċlīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zemnój",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "земно́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mirskoj",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "мирской"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "terrenal"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "worldly or earthly; temporal",
      "word": "mortal"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "telesen",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "телесен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "relating to the body",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "ruumiillinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "relating to the flesh",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "lihallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "leikeins",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "flǣsċlīċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "telesnyj",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "телесный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plotskij",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "плотский"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "carnal"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "corporal"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "of or relating to the body or flesh",
      "word": "cnawdol"
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnal"
}

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