What does 'carnal' mean?

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1. relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites 2. worldly or earthly; temporal 3. of or relating to the body or flesh.

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1. Relating to somebody's physical needs or appetites, especially as
contrasted with spiritual or intellectual qualities (formal) -
"music is the only sensual pleasure without vice".

2. Relating to or consisting sensual needs of the body, given to sensual
indulgence - "carnal remains".

3. Worldly or earthly; temporal - "a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings".

4. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

5. Being in the natural state - unregenerate; animal instincts; fleshly
desire.

Words beginning with "carnal": carnalities, carnality, carnallite,
carnallites, carnally.

Hyphenated usage beginning with "carnal": Carnal-minded, Carnal-mindedness.

Synonyms: carnal, fleshly, sensual, animal mean having a relation to the
body. carnal may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an
action or manifestation of a person's lower nature <a slave to carnal
desires>. fleshly is less derogatory than carnal <a saint who had
experienced fleshly temptations>. sensual may apply to any gratification
of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with
absence of the spiritual or intellectual <fleshpots providing sensual
delights>. animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the
rational nature of a person <led a mindless animal existence>.

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