concupiscent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kɒnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/    美 /kɑːnˈkjuːpɪ.sənt/|/kənˈkjuːpə.sənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Amorous; lustful.
    — 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?

词形变化

more concupiscent comparative most concupiscent superlative

词源

From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concupīscō (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupiō (“long for”), from con- + cupiō (“desire, wish for”).
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