lubricious

lu·bri·cious

adjective \lü-ˈbri-shəs\

Definition of LUBRICIOUS

1

: marked by wantonness : lecherous; also : salacious

2

[Latin lubricus] : having a smooth or slippery quality <a lubricious skin>

— lu·bri·cious·ly adverb

Variants of LUBRICIOUS

lu·bri·cious or lu·bri·cous \ˈlü-bri-kəs\

Examples of LUBRICIOUS

1. <back in the days when lubricious employers could, with impunity, take advantage of naive factory girls>

Origin of LUBRICIOUS

Medieval Latin lubricus, from Latin, slippery, easily led astray

First Known Use: 1535

Related to LUBRICIOUS

Synonyms

concupiscent, goatish, horny, hot, hypersexual, itchy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful (or lubricous), oversexed, passionate, randy, salacious, satyric, wanton

Antonyms

frigid, undersexed

Related Words

aroused, excited; easy, fast, loose, promiscuous; dissipated, dissolute, libertine; corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, immoral, indecent

Near Antonyms

celibate, chaste, decent, immaculate, modest, moral, pure, virtuous; monastic, monkish; maidenly, virginal; innocent, lily-white; priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

Rhymes with LUBRICIOUS

ambitious, auspicious, capricious, delicious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, malicious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, pumiceous, seditious, sericeous, suspicious