carnal

Meaning

  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
  2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɑɹnəl/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).

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