Synonyms of lubricious

lubricious

adjective

lü-ˈbri-shəs 

variants or lubricous

as in passionate

having a strong sexual desire

played a lubricious soap opera character who was in multiple relationships

Synonyms & Similar Words

• passionate
• hot
• libidinous
• lascivious
• salacious
• lustful
• horny
• lecherous
• lewd
• randy
• licentious
• aroused
• corrupt
• immoral
• excited
• itchy
• concupiscent
• oversexed
• goatish
• hypersexual
• satyric
• wanton
• promiscuous
• degraded
• dissolute
• easy
• loose
• libertine
• depraved
• degenerate
• indecent
• fast
• debauched
• debased
• decadent
• dissipated
• demoralized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pure
• frigid
• virtuous
• moral
• chaste
• modest
• immaculate
• celibate
• decent
• monkish
• virginal
• monastic
• undersexed
• innocent
• maidenly
• prudish
• Victorian
• priggish
• puritanical
• prim
• lily-white
• straitlaced

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lubricious

Whenever the lovers escape the family’s attention, the lighting designer Isabella Byrd throws deep shadows over their sometimes naked forms, turning their bodies into lubricious, moving Caravaggios. — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 June 2025

Aside from Black’s deranged performance, the highlight of the film is Jennifer Coolidge, who plays a lubricious vice principal named Marlene. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025

The sensational engine gathers the car's haunches to spew you onto the following straights in great, lubricious spendings of energy. — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023

Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic. — Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022

For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love. — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021

Born in Louisiana, Silver arrives with every noir mystery woman’s attendant clichés: a lubricious walk, a wad of cash in the bosom of her complicated lingerie, a languorous way of lighting cigarettes — and a gun. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2018