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e·rot·ic

 (ĭ-rŏt′ĭk)
adj.
Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire.

[Greek erōtikos, from erōs, erōt-, sexual love.]

e·rot′ic n.
e·rot′i·cal·ly adv.
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erotic

(ɪˈrɒtɪk)
adj
1. of, concerning, or arousing sexual desire or giving sexual pleasure
2. marked by strong sexual desire or being especially sensitive to sexual stimulation
n
a person who has strong sexual desires or is especially responsive to sexual stimulation
[C17: from Greek erōtikos of love, from erōs love]
eˈrotically adv
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e•rot•ic

(ɪˈrɒt ɪk)

adj. Also, e•rot′i•cal.
1. of, pertaining to, or treating of sexual love.
2. arousing or satisfying sexual desire.
3. subject to or marked by strong sexual desire.
n.
4. an erotic person.
[1615–25; < Greek erōtikós <erōt-, s. of érōs Eros]
e•rot′i•cal•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.erotic - an erotic person
sensualist - a person who enjoys sensuality
Adj.1.erotic - giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
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erotic

adjective sexual, sexy (informal), crude, explicit, rousing, sensual, seductive, vulgar, stimulating, steamy (informal), suggestive, aphrodisiac, voluptuous, carnal, titillating, bawdy, lustful, sexually arousing, erogenous, amatory photos of naked women in erotic poses
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erotic

adjective
1. Of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire:
2. Feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire:
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Translations
مُثير للشَّهْوَه الجِنْسِيَّهمُثيرٌ لِلشَهْوَةِ الـجِنْسِيَّة
erotický
erotisk
eroottinen
erotičan
erotikus
kynæsandi
エロチックな
성애의
erotinis
erotisks
erotický
erotisk
ซึ่งกระตุ้นความรู้สึกทางเพศ
erotikcinsel istek uyandıran
gợi tình

erotic

[ɪˈrɒtɪk] ADJerótico
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

erotic

[ɪˈrɒtɪk] adj [pose, experience] → érotique; [painting] → érotique
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

erotic

adjerotisch; love alsosinnlich; pose alsoaufreizend; an erotic dancerein Erotiktänzer m, → eine Erotiktänzerin f; he’s a very erotic personer ist sehr erotisch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

erotic

[ɪˈrɒtɪk] adjerotico/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

erotic

(iˈrotik) adjective
of, or arousing, sexual love or desire.
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erotic

مُثيرٌ لِلشَهْوَةِ الـجِنْسِيَّة erotický erotisk erotisch ερωτικός erótico eroottinen érotique erotičan erotico エロチックな 성애의 erotisch erotisk erotyczny erótico эротический erotisk ซึ่งกระตุ้นความรู้สึกทางเพศ erotik gợi tình 色情的
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e·rot·ic

a. erótico-a, rel. al erotismo o capaz de despertar impulsos sexuales.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

erotic

adj erótico
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erotic desire in those who have had little or no experience of its satisfaction--mistakes are to be expected, and do in fact very often occur.
If they had not done justice to his erotic bellowings and gesticulations, he stuck in, in a large inky scrawl, all and more than they had omitted.
Powell- -if only her true name; and more of Captain Anthony--if only the fact that he was the son of a delicate erotic poet of a markedly refined and autocratic temperament.
Choking oneself with opium and writing little erotic verses on vellum was not his notion of how a gentleman should go to the devil.
Upon the whole, the consequences of such a law as this would be directly contrary to those things which good laws ought to establish, and which Socrates endeavoured to establish by his regulations concerning women and children: for we think that friendship is the greatest good which can happen to any city, as nothing so much prevents seditions: and amity in a city is what Socrates commends above all things, which appears to be, as indeed he says, the effect of friendship; as we learn from Aristophanes in the Erotics, who says, that those who love one another from the excess of that passion, desire to breathe the same soul, and from being two to be blended into one: from whence it would necessarily follow, that both or one of them must be destroyed.
Thus, at the same time that we are saturated with representations of sex, we are increasingly impoverished by these images, deprived of the genuinely erotic.
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