Carnal

Definitions: Carnal

Carnal

Adjective

1. Of the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice".

2. Of or relating to the body or flesh; "carnal remains".

3. Of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains".

Date "carnal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Carnal \Car"nal\, adjective. [Latin expression carnalis, from caro, carnis, flesh; akin to Greek, Sanskrit kravya; compare to French charnel, Of. also carnel. Compare to Charnel.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Carnal Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a "carnal mind, which is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man's animal nature are so called (Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11). The ceremonial of the Mosaic law is spoken of as "carnal," because it related to things outward, the bodies of men and of animals, and the purification of the flesh (Heb. 7:16; 9:10). The weapons of Christian warfare are "not carnal", that is, they are not of man's device, nor are wielded by human power (2 Cor. 10:4). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Carnal

Synonyms: animal(a) (adj), bodily (adj), fleshly (adj), sensual (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impurity	Concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.
Irreligion	Worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly; minded.
Sexuality	Sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.
	Adjective: sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Carnal

English words defined with "carnal": carnal abuse, Carnal knowledge, carnalise, Carnalism, carnalize, carnally ♦ Fleshliness ♦ Platonic love ♦ sensualise, sensualize, sexual intercourse ♦ unlawful carnal knowledge. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carnal": Hercules' Choice ♦ MUTTON ♦ RELISH ♦ TO GRIND, TO TUP. (references)

Etymologies containing "carnal": Carnage, Carnation. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carnal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (carnal, fleshly), Romanian (carnal, concupiscent, sensual), Spanish (carnal, fleshly).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But Wang, a maniacal botanist whose organ was devoured by a crazed Penis Flytrap, could not tolerate the existence of so much pleasure, and so, banding together an army of the impotent and frustrated, and armed with a small but effective sex ray, plunged my palace into carnal chaos, and took it over. (Flesh Gordon; writing credit: Michael Benveniste)
Movie/TV Titles	Carnal Sins (2001) The Lovemakers: Carnal Style (1970) Carnal Knowledge (1970) Deseo carnal (1977) Inferno Carnal (1977)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Carnal Acts: Essays (reference) Carnal Capers in Canton, Ohio Book Three (reference) Carnal Confessions (reference) Carnal Innocence (reference) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Carnal Crimes (reference) Carnal Knowledge (reference) Carnal Sins (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (reference) Our Weapons Are Not Carnal (reference) Tin Tan Y Su Carnal Marcelo (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Amative; amatory; amorous; aphrodisiac; bawdy; blue; carnal; concupiscent; dirty; earthy; erogenous; fervid; filthy; fleshly; hot; impassioned; kinky; lascivious; lecherous; lewd; obscene; off-color; purple; prurient; raunchy; raw; romantic; rousing; sala.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Carnal pleasure hinders deliberation, is at war with reason, blindfolds the eyes of the mind, so to speak, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Samuel Butler	For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	When he pronounces a soft o he protrudes his full carnal lips as if he kissed the vowel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Gambia	Any person who has carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16 is guilty of a felony (except in the case of marriage, which can be as early as 12 years of age). (references)
Worker Rights	Malta	The White Slave Traffic Ordinance and the Criminal Code prohibit procurement for prostitution, pornography, sexual offenses, defilement of minors, illegal detainment, unlawful carnal knowledge, and indecent assault. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Carnal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.89% of the time. "Carnal" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.89%	89	34,931
Noun (proper)	1.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	90	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "carnal".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Crete	N/A	Biblical	Carnal
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "carnal": carnal abuse ♦ carnal desires ♦ carnal knowledge ♦ carnal lusts ♦ carnal sins ♦ unlawful carnal knowledge. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "carnal": Carnal-minded, Carnal-mindedness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "carnal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sensual (fleshly, sensual, sensuous), material (copy, fleshly, material, matter, physical, stock, stuff, worldly), joshpirtëror, fizik (bodily, constitution, corporeal, physical). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير روحي (material), ‏جسدي (bodily, corporal, corporeal, glandule, material, physical, sensual, somatic), ‏شهواني (amorous, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian		сексуален (sensual, sex, sexual, sexy), телесен (bodily, corporeal, fleshly, material, physical, somatic), похотлив (concupiscent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, prurient, raunchy, rutish, salacious), полов (copulative, genital, sensual, sex, sexual, venereal), плътски (animal, fleshly, material, sensual). (various references)

Chinese		肉�". (various references)

Czech		tìlesný (bodily, Corporal, corporeal, physical), smyslný (earthly, Randy, sensual, sensuous, sultry, voluptuous, wanton), pudový (instinctive). (various references)

Dutch		vleselýk. (various references)

Esperanto		karna. (various references)

Farsi		نفسانی (Sensual), جسمی (Corporal, Corporeal, Material, Substantial), جسمانی (Bodily, Corporeal, Earthen, Material, Physical, Sensual, Worldly), شهوانی (Brutal, Lascivious, Lecherous, Lustful, Passionate, Random, Ruttish, Salacious, Sensual, Voluptuous). (various references)

Finnish		lihallinen (fleshly). (various references)

French		charnel, sexuel, matériel, matérialiste. (various references)

German		fleischlich (carnally, fleshly, meat). (various references)

Greek		σαρκικόσ (fleshly, sensual), ασελγήσ (lascivious, lewd, libidinous, profligate, prurient, voluptuous). (various references)

Hebrew		חוש� י (sensual, voluptuous). (various references)

Hungarian		nemi (copulatory, generic, genital, sexual, some, venereal), érzéki (amatory, amorous, concupiscent, erotic, lecherous, libidinous, luscious, prurient, salacious, sensational, sensory, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), világi (laic, laical, lay, secular, temporal, wordly, worldly), vérengző (bloodthirsty, bloody, ferocious, murderous), mondén, hívságos, húson élő, gyilkos (bloody, cutthroat, devastating, homicidal, internecine, killer, lethal gas, mortal, murderer, murderous, scathing, slaughterous, slayer). (various references)

Indonesian		jasmani (bodily), badaniyah. (various references)

Italian		carnale (fleshly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		煩悩 (carnal desires, earthly desires, lusts, passions). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"なのあじ�'しる (to have carnal knowledge), ぼ�"のう (carnal desires, earthly desires, lusts, passions), にくよく (animal passions, carnal desires, lust, lusts of the flesh), れつじょう (animal passions, carnal desire, lust), じゅうよく (animal or carnal desires, lust). (various references)

Pig Latin		arnalcay

Portuguese		carnal (fleshly). (various references)

Romanian		carnal (concupiscent, sensual), trupesc (bodily, burly, Corporal, corporeal, earthy, fleshly, sensuous), senzual (amative, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, Randy, salacious, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), pãmântesc (earth-bound, earthly, earthy, mundane, worldly). (various references)

Russian		плотский (fleshy). (various references)

Scottish		collaidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		telesni (bodily, corporal, corporeal, hylic, personal, physical), puten (sensual), pohotan (lascivious, libidinous, voluptuous). (various references)

Spanish		carnal (fleshly). (various references)

Swedish		sinnlig (fleshly, pertaining to sense, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), köttslig (fleshly). (various references)

Turkish		cinsel (sex, sexual), dünyevi (earth-born, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, secular, temporal, worldly), bedensel (bodily, Corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gestic, material, organic, physical, sensual, somatic), şehvetle ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		сласний, хтивий (brute, brutish, concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish), фізичний (bodily, corporeal, natural, physic, physical), тілесний (bodily, corporeal, fleshly, physical, somatic), кровожерний (bloody minded, cannibalish, tigerish, tigrish), кривавий (bloody, murderous, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous), плотський (earthy, fleshly, libidinous, material, pandemic, sensuous). (various references)

Welsh		cnawdol (fleshly, fleshy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carnali, carnalia, carnalibus, carnalis, carnei, carneum, carnis. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	carnalis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 7, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oidamen gar oti o nomoV pneumatikoV estin egw de sarkikoV eimi pepramenoV upo thn amartian
Latin	405	Vulgate	Scimus enim quod lex spiritalis est ego autem carnalis sum venundatus sub peccato
Old English	990	West Saxon	We cnewað þæt æ is gastlicu; ac ic eom ungastlic, and synne swa þeow gecypt.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And we witen, that the lawe is spiritual; but Y am fleischli, seld vndur synne.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	For we knowe that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall solde vnder synne
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 7, Verse 14
Cebuano	¶ Nahibalo kita nga espirituhanon ang kasugoan, apan ako lawasnon ug gikabaligya aron maulipon sa sala.
Croatian	Zakon je, znamo, duhovan; ja sam pak tjelesan, prodan pod grijeh.
Danish	Thi vi vide, at Loven er åndelig; men jeg er kødelig, solgt under Synden.
Dutch	Want wij weten, dat de wet geestelijk is, maar ik ben vleselijk, verkocht onder de zonde.
Finnish	Sillä me tiedämme, että laki on hengellinen, mutta minä olen lihallinen, myyty synnin alaisuuteen.
French	Nous savons, en effet, que la loi est spirituelle; mais moi, je suis charnel, vendu au péché.
German	Denn wir wissen, daß das Gesetz geistlich ist; ich bin aber fleischlich, unter die Sünde verkauft.
Hungarian	Mert tudjuk, hogy a törvény lelki; de én testi vagyok, a bûn alá rekesztve.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kita tahu bahwa hukum agama Yahudi berasal dari Roh Allah; tetapi saya ini manusia lemah. Saya sudah dijual untuk menjadi hamba dosa.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Karena kita ketahui, bahwa hukum itu rohani, tetapi aku ini di dalam keadaan tubuh, terjual ke bawah dosa.
Italian	Sappiamo infatti che la legge è spirituale, mentre io sono di carne, venduto come schiavo del peccato.
Latvian	Jo mçs zinâm, ka likums ir garîgs, bet es, grçkam pârdots, esmu miesîgs.
Maori	¶ E matau ana hoki tatou no te wairua te ture: ko ahau ia no te kikokiko, kua hokona hei parau ma te hara.
Norwegian	For vi vet at loven er åndelig; jeg derimot er kjødelig, solgt under synden;
Portuguese	Porque bem sabemos que a lei é espiritual; mas eu sou carnal, vendido sob o pecado.
Rumanian	Wtim, kn adevqr, cq Legea este duhovniceascq: dar eu sknt pqmkntesc, vkndut rob pqcatului.
Shuar	¶ Akupkamuka Yúsnaiti. Nu paant nékaji. Antsu wikia ayashna nuna wakerakun tunaan umireajai.
Swahili	Tunajua kwamba Sheria ni ya kiroho, lakini mimi ni wa kidunia, mimi nimeuzwa kuwa mtumwa wa dhambi.
Swedish	Vi veta ju att lagen är andlig, men jag är av köttslig natur, såld till träl under synden.
Uma	¶ Ta'inca moto ompi', Atura Pue' bate lompe' apa' ngkai Inoha' Tomoroli' -i. Tapi' aku' toi-e, manusia' to lente-a, apa' napobatua jeko' -a-hana.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carnal": carnalities, carnality, carnallite, carnallites, carnally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carnal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acknell, acral, Arnall, arnel, Barnaul, Cadnam, Camranh, canali, canaul, cardal, cardnail, Carha, carial, Carinhall, carmal, Carna, carnac, Carnall, carnap, carneal, Carneil, carnel, carni, carnic, Carnlea, cartal, caural, cenral, ceral, Cernac, Cernak, cernel, charnal, Charnay, Charnham, Charwal, ciral, craal, cranal, cranaly, Crna, Farnol, Karnad, Karndal, Karwal, qaryal, Shernhall, tarnal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carnal" (pronounced kÄ"rnul)
5	-Ä" r n u l	Darnel.
4	-r n u l	cornel.
3	-n u l	abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n-r"
	-1 letter: canal, craal.
	-2 letters: alan, alar, anal, carl, carn, clan, narc.
	-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, arc, can, car, lac, lar, ran.
	-4 letters: aa, al, an, ar, la, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n-r"
	+1 letter: carinal, cranial, lacunar.
	+2 letters: balancer, barnacle, calendar, canaller, cannular, cardinal, carnally, carnival, coplanar, craaling, flancard, lacunars, lacunary, parlance.
	+3 letters: ancestral, ancillary, archangel, arsenical, avuncular, balancers, barnacled, barnacles, branchial, calendars, canallers, canicular, cantorial, cardinals, carnality, carnelian, carnivals, charlatan, clearance, cranially, declarant, flagrance, flagrancy, flancards, lacunaria, monarchal, navicular, nonracial, parlances, rebalance.
	+4 letters: accelerant, aldermanic, anarchical, archangels, arsenicals, calamander, calendared, candelabra, caracoling, cardinally, carmagnole, carnallite, carnassial, carnelians, cavalryman, cavalrymen, charlatans, cladoceran, clearances, connatural, culinarian, declarants, flagrances, fractional, halocarbon, lacerating, laceration, landscaper, menarcheal, monarchial, naviculars, nonaccrual, placarding, rabbinical, rebalanced, rebalances, recanalize, retinacula, scarlatina, tabernacle, tentacular, tractional, tyrannical, ultraclean, unicameral, vernacular.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 6E 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 006E 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carnal	84	carnal mind	4
carnal knowledge	54	2 carnal el gran	4
carnal sin	17	carnal coed confession	3
for unlawful carnal knowledge	16	carnal instinct	3
carnal forge	14	carnal girl	3
carnal couple	13	carnal pleasure	3
carnal lustful	10	carnal sex	3
carnal el gran	10	carnal feast	3
carnal comic	8	carnal college	3
carnal desire	8	carnal violacion	3
carnal gran	8	amor carnal	2
the carnal christian	7	carnal carnie	2
carnal manor	7	carnal manor.com	2
abuse carnal	6	carnal photo	2
2 carnal gran	5	carnal not our warfare weapon	2
carnal passion	4	carnal movie sin	2
		carnal juvenile knowledge	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Carnal

Definitions: Carnal

Carnal

Adjective

Specialty Definitions: Carnal

Synonyms: Carnal

Synonyms within Context: Carnal

Impurity

Irreligion

Sexuality

Crosswords: Carnal

Modern Usage: Carnal

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Carnal

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Carnal

Illustrations:Carnal

Sounds Captioned with "Carnal".

Familiar Quotations: Carnal

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Samuel Butler

Use in Literature: Carnal

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Carnal

Usage Frequency: Carnal

Derived & Related Names: Carnal

Expressions: Carnal

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carnal

carnal juvenile knowledge

Modern Translations: Carnal

Albanian

Arabic

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Chinese

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Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

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Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Scottish

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Carnal

Bible Trace: Carnal

Matched Bible Translations: Carnal

Derivations & Misspellings: Carnal

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Carnal"

Anagrams: Carnal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Carnal

43 61 72 6E 61 6C

-.-. .- .-. -. .- .-..

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100001 01101100

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#110 &#97 &#108

0043 0061 0072 006E 0061 006C

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Carnal