FLESHLY (fleshlier, fleshliest)

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Irregular inflected forms: fleshlier    , fleshliest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fleshly mean? 

• FLESHLY (adjective)
  The adjective FLESHLY has 1 sense:

1. marked by the appetites and passions of the body

  Familiarity information: FLESHLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLESHLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by the appetites and passions of the body

Synonyms:

animal; carnal; fleshly; sensual

Context example:

music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Similar:

physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)

 Context examples 

Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yes, and deems, and is bound to deem, himself honoured by the lot, and aspires but after the day when the cross of separation from fleshly ties shall be laid on his shoulders, and when the Head of that church-militant of whose humblest members he is one, shall give the word, 'Rise, follow Me!'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)