lubricious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/luˈbɹɪʃəs/

Definition of lubricious

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Smooth and glassy; slippery.
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adj

  1. Smooth and glassy; slippery.
  2. (figuratively)Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
    “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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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

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