lubricious

lu·bri·cious

adj \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

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Rhymes with LUBRICIOUS

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