salacious

sa·la·cious

adj \sə-ˈlā-shəs\

Definition of SALACIOUS

1

: arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination : lascivious

2

: lecherous, lustful

— sa·la·cious·ly adverb

— sa·la·cious·ness noun

Examples of SALACIOUS

1. a song with salacious lyrics
2. <the salacious Greek god Pan is generally portrayed as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat>
3. Lady Worsley's Whim, the story of Lady Worsley and her husband Sir Richard Worsley, is also reconstructed from some well-thumbed texts, in this case trial transcripts and newspaper reports of cases of “Criminal Conversation” which became popular eighteenth-century erotica. Charges … were brought by husbands seeking damages from the purported lovers of their supposedly adulterous wives, and the detail, which needed to be explicit, was frequently salacious. —Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement, 21 Nov. 2008
4. From snarky political commentary to salacious “memoirs” that flirt with both fact and fiction, scores of bloggers have gotten the book deal boon—with mixed results at the register. —Eunice Lee et al., Hyphen, Winter 2007
5. There's little difference between the junk mail in your mailbox and the junk e-mail that appears on your monitor, except that the e-mail is often of a salacious nature, e.g., the “hot, live XXX action” available at various dark alleyways on the web. —Michael Saunders, Boston Globe, 6 Oct.1997

Origin of SALACIOUS

Latin salac-, salax, from salire to move spasmodically, leap — more at sally

First Known Use: circa 1645

Related to SALACIOUS

Synonyms: concupiscent, goatish, horny, hot, hypersexual, itchy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lubricious (or lubricous), oversexed, passionate, randy, lustful, satyric, wanton

Antonyms: frigid, undersexed

Related Words: aroused, excited; easy, fast, loose, promiscuous; dissipated, dissolute, libertine; corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, immoral, indecent

Near Antonyms: celibate, chaste, decent, immaculate, modest, moral, pure, virtuous; monastic, monkish; maidenly, virginal; innocent, lily-white; priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

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Rhymes with SALACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious