Meanings
comparative more lubricious · superlative most lubricious
- figurativelyLewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy1 more example
His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinlūbricus“slippery”
- Englishlubricious
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian хлъзгав, плъзгав
- хлъзгав (hlăzgav)smooth and glassy; slippery
- плъзгав (plăzgav)smooth and glassy; slippery
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lubricious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lubricious
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