fleshly

[flesh-lee]

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adjective, flesh·li·er, flesh·li·est.

of or relating to the flesh or body; bodily, corporeal, or physical.
carnal; sensual: fleshly pleasures.
worldly, rather than spiritual.

having a sensuous quality: the fleshly poetry of the 17th century.
Obsolete. having much flesh; fleshy.

Origin of fleshly

before 900; Middle English; Old English flǣsclic. See flesh, -ly

Related formsflesh·li·ness, noun

Can be confusedfleshly fleshy

Synonym study

2. See carnal.

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Related Words for fleshly

animal, bodily, carnal, erotic, gross, lascivious, lewd, lustful, profane, sensual, voluptuous, animalistic, venereal, corporal, corporeal, earthly, human, material, mundane, physical

Examples from the Web for fleshly

Historical Examples of fleshly

For the moment, she forgot his hopeless durance in fleshly walls.
Meadow Grass
Alice Brown
Colonel Bishop halted to consider her, shading his eyes with his fleshly hand.
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
If the yearning of a fleshly love is gone, you are without love, without obligation.
Romola
George Eliot
How often the fleshly mind has usurped His place in Thy worship!
Holy in Christ
Andrew Murray
In a moment the fleshly image receded, it sank back into the darkness.
The Flaw in the Crystal
May Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for fleshly

fleshly

adjective -lier or -liest

relating to the body, esp its sensual nature; carnalfleshly desire
worldly as opposed to spiritual
fleshy; fat

Derived Formsfleshliness, noun

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Word Origin and History for fleshly

adj.

Old English flæsclic; see flesh (n.) + -ly (1).