erotic

[US]/ɪ'rɒtɪk/
[UK]/ɪ'rɑtɪk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. (causing) relating to sexual desire; pertaining to explicit sexual content
adv. in a sexually stimulating manner

Example Sentences

There were some overtly erotic scenes in the film.

she thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women.

his fixation on the details of other people's erotic lives.

In particular, the middle section is unsparingly explicit about everypossible sort of erotic daydream.

the statues are sensual to the point of erotic and herein lies their interest.

Mytho-Erotic Epyllion as the Product of English Humanism:Shakespeare's"Venus and Adonis"and Marlowe's"Hero and Leander".

"Think about it when you're having erotic dreams, that pure illusion scene, it's so real that you can jizz instantly in your pants.

Real-world Examples

He doesn't pay any attention to the social character of erotic desire and romantic interest.

Source: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Love (Audio Version)

The claustrophobia has points, and it's not erotic.

Source: The Power of Art - Michelangelo da Caravaggio

We saw this theme worked over in Plato's other great erotic dialogue Phaedrus.

Source: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Love (Video Version)

I don't even know if I particularly like that question that you know. - Erotic thrillers. - Erotic thrillers, yeah.

Source: Actor Dialogue (Bilingual Selection)

But women have the erotic upper hand for another reason: the male “sexual deficit”.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Then back home, he applied the spice rub with such erotic tenderness, it made my mother a little jealous.

Source: Young Sheldon - Season 1

The problem is how to think of the erotic interest of an older man in a very young man?

Source: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Love (Video Version)

Great thigh, great calf, really really erotic.

Source: Celebrities' shopping spree

Who then will be the judge of these different views of the way that the erotic enters into human love?

Source: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Love (Video Version)

The erotic is what makes you feel alive.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

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