Adjacent Words

Erotic definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EROT'IC
EROT'ICAL, a. [Gr. love.] Pertaining to love; treating of love.
EROT'IC, n. An amorous composition or poem.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing [syn: erotic, titillating] n
1: an erotic person

Merriam Webster's

also erotical adjective Etymology: Greek er?tikos, from er?t-, er?s Date: 1651 1. of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire <erotic art> 2. strongly marked or affected by sexual desire • erotic noun • erotically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. of or causing sexual love, esp. tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement. Derivatives: erotically adv. Etymology: F érotique f. Gk erotikos f. eros erotos sexual love

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Erotic E*rot"ic, n. An amorous composition or poem.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Erotic E*rot"ic, Erotical E*rot"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. ['e]rotique. See Eros.] Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something as erotic, you mean that it involves sexual feelings or arouses sexual desire. It might sound like some kind of wild fantasy, but it wasn't an erotic experience at all. ...photographs of nude women in erotic poses. ADJ • erotically The film is shot seductively, erotically... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj 2. Erotic art shows naked people or sexual acts, and is intended to produce feelings of sexual pleasure. Erotic paintings also became a fine art. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a.; (also erotical) Amatory, amorous, Anacreontic. II. n. Amatory poem, Anacreontic, Anacreontique.

Moby Thesaurus

amative, amatory, amorous, anacreontic, animal, aphrodisiac, aphrodisiomaniacal, ardent, arousing, bawdy, blue, canal, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, desirous, dirty, earthy, epicurean, erogenic, erogenous, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal, fervent, fervid, filthy, fleshly, gamic, goatish, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impassioned, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, loverlike, loverly, lovesome, lubricious, lubricous, lustful, nasty, naughty, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oversexed, passionate, pornographic, potent, priapic, procreative, prurient, randy, ribald, risque, rousing, salacious, satyric, seductive, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, spicy, stimulating, straight, suggestive, titillating, undersexed, venereal, voluptuous