lascivious
/ləˈsɪvi.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke."
- "The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone."
Etymology
From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lascīviōsus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ləˈsɪvi.əs/
- British English: /ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/
Inflected Forms
more lascivious (comparative)
most lascivious (superlative)