Carnal Definition

kärnəl
adjective
Having to do with or preoccupied with bodily or sexual pleasures; sensual or sexual.
Webster's New World

Worldly or earthly; temporal.

Wiktionary
In or of the flesh; bodily; material or worldly, not spiritual.
Webster's New World
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Carnal

  • have carnal knowledge of

Origin of Carnal

  • Middle English from Old North French carnel from Latin carnālis from Latin carō carn- flesh sker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).

    From Wiktionary

Carnal Sentence Examples

  • His mind coursed with carnal lust, raw and insatiable.

  • Love is treated from a frankly carnal point of view.

  • Poetry evokes the carnal appetite for the ugly and the beautiful.

  • One night while he lay awake, he tells us, he saw the likeness of the Blessed Virgin with her divine Son; and immediately a loathing seized him for the former deeds of his life, especially for those relating to carnal desires; and he asserts that for the future he never yielded to any such desires.

  • Let us yearn for resurrection power in our lives today that we may walk in newness of life, spiritual beings and not carnal.

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Words Starting With

CCACAR

Words Ending With

LALNAL

Unscrambles

carnal

Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CA & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With AL

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With L