Usually means: Lacking legal or moral restraints.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. licentious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. licentious: Merriam-Webster
  3. licentious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. licentious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. licentious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. licentious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Licentious, licentious: Wordnik
  8. licentious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. licentious: Wiktionary
  10. licentious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. licentious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. licentious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. licentious: Dictionary.com
  14. licentious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Licentious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Licentious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. licentious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. licentious: Rhymezone
  19. Licentious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. licentious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. licentious: FreeDictionary.org
  22. licentious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. licentious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. licentious: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. licentious: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. licentious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. licentious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
▸ adjective:  Disregarding accepted rules.

Similar:
unchaste, incontinent, loose, dissolute, ungoverned, unprincipled, unscrupulous, wanton, unscrupled, scrupleless, more...

Opposite:
chaste, virtuous, pure

Types:
lewd, lecherous, lascivious, more...

Phrases:
licentious man, licentious person, more...

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    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     garnet, more...
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Similar:
unchaste, incontinent, loose, dissolute, ungoverned, unprincipled, unscrupulous, wanton, unscrupled, scrupleless, more...

Opposite:
chaste, virtuous, pure

Types:
lewd, lecherous, lascivious, more...

Phrases:
licentious man, licentious person, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     garnet, more...



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