carnal /ˈkɑɹnəl/ adjective3 •Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. — 1941 •Of or relating to the body or flesh. •Worldly or earthly; temporal. formsmore carnal · most carnal