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salacious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of salacious

having a strong sexual desire

the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat

Synonyms of salacious

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

Words Related to salacious

aroused, excited

easy, fast, loose, promiscuous

dissipated, dissolute, libertine

corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, immoral, indecent

Near Antonyms of salacious

celibate, chaste, decent, immaculate, modest, moral, pure, virtuous

monastic, monkish

maidenly, virginal

innocent, lily-white

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

Antonyms of salacious

frigid, undersexed

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