Crossword-Solution: SENSUAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sensual | a. | Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. |
| Sensual | a. | Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly. |
| Sensual | a. | Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. |
| Sensual | a. | Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SENSUAL | anagram | UNSEALS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SENSUAL (5)
Are not the chief elements of temperance, speaking generally, obedience to commanders and self-control in sensual pleasures? True.
What women can compare with a truly refined American lady? The duchesses the other night had no attractions for my eyes; they looked coarse and sensual! It seemed to me that the tyranny of class distinctions must indeed be terrible when such countenances could inspire admiration.
She raised his head to give him food, and it was heavy against her hand; when she had fed him she wiped his sensual mouth and his red beard.
Self-analysis and general observation had taught him that men are sensual beings, and that sensualism must die for want of food if it were not for sex instincts, if it were not for Art, and especially for Music.
Perhaps some Allegory less liable to mistake or abuse had been better among so inflammable a People: much more so when, as some think with Hafiz and Omar, the abstract is not only likened to, but identified with, the sensual Image; hazardous, if not to the Devotee himself, yet to his weaker Brethren; and worse for the Profane in proportion as the Devotion of the Initiated grew warmer.
Quotes with SENSUAL (3)
Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass jewels are best left in the dark. Let not the marble say what men do not. The essentials of the dead man's life--the trembling hope, the implacable miracle of pain, the wonder of sensual delight--will abide forever. Blindly the uncertain soul asks to continuewhen it is the lives of others that will make that happen, as you yourself…
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).