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Depraved vs Lascivious - What's the difference?

depraved | lascivious |

As adjectives the difference between depraved and lascivious

is that depraved is perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense while lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

As a verb depraved

is (deprave).

depraved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deprave)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
  • Derived terms

    * depravedly * depravedness

    Anagrams

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    lascivious

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
  • Synonyms

    * wanton, lewd, lustful

    See also

    * lecherous