licentiously

1. 1.

   in a licentious and promiscuous manner

   “this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously”

   Synonymswantonlypromiscuously

Questions about licentiously

What does licentiously mean?

licentiously means "in a licentious and promiscuous manner".

How many syllables are in licentiously?

licentiously has 5 syllables: li-cen-ti-ou-sly. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for licentiously?

Close synonyms include wantonly, promiscuously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is licentiously a common word?

licentiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.