salacious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sa=la=cious

CIDE DICTIONARY

salacious, n. [L. salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, fr. salire to leap. See Salient.].

 Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

salacious, adj.
1 lustful; lecherous.
2 (of writings, pictures, talk, etc.) tending to cause sexual desire.

Derivative

salaciously adv. salaciousness n. salacity n.

Etymology

L salax salacis f. salire leap

THESAURUS

salacious

Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue, carnal, clitoromaniacal, concupiscent, dirty, ejaculatory, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hysteromaniacal, impure, incontinent, itching, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lurid, lustful, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, orgasmic, orgastic, passionate, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, ribald, satyric, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, steamy, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unsatisfied, vile

ROGET THESAURUS

salacious

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.