Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - carnal

 adjective  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French carnel, charnel, from Late Latin ~is, from Latin carn-, caro flesh; akin to Greek keirein to cut — more at shear  Date: 14th century  1.  a. relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites  b. marked by sexuality ~ love  2. bodily, corporeal seen with ~ eyes  3.  a. temporal ~ weapons  b. worldly a ~ mind  • ~ity noun  • ~ly adverb Synonyms:  ~, fleshly, sensual, animal mean having a relation to the body. ~ may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an action or manifestation of a person's lower nature a slave to ~ desires. fleshly is less derogatory than ~ a saint who had experienced fleshly temptations. sensual may apply to any gratification of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with absence of the spiritual or intellectual fleshpots providing sensual delights. animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the rational nature of a person led a mindless animal existence.