From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Licentious \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), adjective [L. licentiosus: cf. F. licencieux. See {License}.]
1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
A wit that no licentious pertness knows. --Savage.
2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. ''Licentious wickedness.'' --Shak.
Syn: Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous; ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose; sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral. -- {Li*cen"tious*ly}, adverb -- {Li*cen"tious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "licentious": abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved, disobedient, dissipated, dissolute, fast, fleshly, free, free-living, gallant, gay, go-go, headstrong, heady, high-living, hubristic, immoderate, immoral, incontinent, indulgent, insubordinate, intemperate, irrepressible, irresponsible, lascivious, lawless, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, loose, lustful, mutinous, nonrestrictive, out of control, out of hand, oversexed, permissive, presuming, presumptuous, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, randy, reinless, relaxed, reprobate, riotous, salacious, satyric, scabrous, self-willed, sensual, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoral, unmuzzled, unprincipled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, wildcat, willful
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