different between ungovernable vs lascivious

ungovernable

English

Etymology

un- +? governable

Adjective

ungovernable (comparative more ungovernable, superlative most ungovernable)

  1. Not governable

Translations

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lascivious

English

Etymology

From Latin lasc?vi?sus, from lasc?via (sportiveness, lustfulness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l??s?v??s/

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

  1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
    • 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.

Synonyms

  • wanton, lewd, lustful

Related terms

Derived terms

  • lasciviously
  • lasciviousness

Translations

See also

  • lecherous

Anagrams

  • laviscious

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