lubricious

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US/luˈbɹɪʃəs/

adjective

Smooth and glassy; slippery.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivelubricious (comparative more lubricious, superlative most lubricious)

comparative more lubricious · superlative most lubricious

  1. 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 Spy
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    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

adjectivehaving a smooth or slippery quality

adjectivecharacterized by lust

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinlūbricus“slippery”
  2. Englishlubricious

Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.

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Translations

Bulgarian хлъзгав, плъзгав
  • хлъзгав (hlăzgav)smooth and glassy; slippery
  • плъзгав (plăzgav)smooth and glassy; slippery
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Chicago

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