unlawful carnal knowledge

1. 1.

   forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals

   Synonymscriminal congress

   Broadersexual intercourse

   Narrowerextramarital sexincest

Questions about unlawful carnal knowledge

What does unlawful carnal knowledge mean?

unlawful carnal knowledge means "forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals".

What is another word for unlawful carnal knowledge?

Close synonyms include criminal congress. 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 unlawful carnal knowledge a common word?

unlawful carnal knowledge 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.