carnal

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈkɑɹnəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
    — 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.
  2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

词形变化

more carnal comparative most carnal superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
carnalism carnalist carnality carnalization carnalize carnal knowledge carnally carnalness hypercarnal noncarnal uncarnal
相关词
incarnate incarnation reincarnate reincarnation

词源

From Middle English carnal, from Old French charnel, from Late Latin carnālis (“fleshy”), from oblique stem of Latin carō, carnis (“meat, flesh”) + -ālis (whence -al).
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