adj
Meaning 1
Promoting sexual desire or lust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- utterly salacious
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
salacious
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/səˈleɪ.ʃəs/
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rhymes with -eɪʃəs
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adj
Meaning 2
Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- salacious gossip
- salacious details
- The newspaper published a salacious story about the scandal.
- He was arrested for distributing salacious material.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- lewd whisperings of a dirty old man
- an indecent gesture
- obscene telephone calls
- salacious limericks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lewd, obscene, raunchy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
characterized by lust
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer
- her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature
- prurient literature
- prurient thoughts
- a salacious rooster of a little man
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, prurient
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious, ultimately from saliō + -acious.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: похотлив (pohotliv) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Esperanto: voluptiga — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Finnish: hekumallinen — promoting sexual desire or lust
- French: salace — promoting sexual desire or lust
- German: anzüglich — promoting sexual desire or lust
- German: aufreizend — promoting sexual desire or lust
- German: heiß — promoting sexual desire or lust
- German: schlüpfrig — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Hungarian: érzéki — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Italian: salace — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Latin: salax — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Māori: tūkari — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Norwegian: slibrig — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Portuguese: fogoso — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Romanian: înflăcărat — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Russian: похотли́вый (poxotlívyj) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Russian: сладостра́стный (sladostrástnyj) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Russian: распу́тный (raspútnyj) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Spanish: salaz — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Thai: ยั่วยวน — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Thai: แซ่บ (sɛ̂p) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Ukrainian: хти́вий (xtývyj) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Ukrainian: похітли́вий (poxitlývyj) — promoting sexual desire or lust
- Bulgarian: неприличен (nepriličen) — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Bulgarian: непристоен (nepristoen) — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Danish: uanstændig — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Danish: modbydelig — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Danish: obskøn — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- French: salace — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- German: lüstern — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- German: schmutzig — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- German: obszön — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Hungarian: pikáns — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Latin: salax — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Māori: mōtekoteko — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Polish: lubieżny — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Polish: sprośny — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Polish: zbereźny — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Romanian: lasciv — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Romanian: obscen — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Russian: вульга́рный (vulʹgárnyj) — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd
- Russian: непристо́йный (nepristójnyj) — lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd