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lubricious

US/luˈbɹɪʃəs/

lubricious adjective: smooth and glassy; slippery.

Adjective

lubricious (comparative more lubricious, superlative most lubricious)

  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...1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
    • 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

Forms of lubricious

comparativemore lubricious
superlativemost lubricious

Origin of lubricious

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

Words formed from lubricious

Questions about lubricious

What does lubricious mean?
Lubricious means smooth and glassy; slippery.
What part of speech is lubricious?
Lubricious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lubricious?
Lubricious is pronounced /luˈbɹɪʃəs/ (US).

Words near lubricious in the dictionary

  1. lubricator
  2. lubricators
  3. lubricatory
  4. lubricin
  5. lubricins
  6. lubricious
  7. lubriciously
  8. lubriciousness
  9. lubricities
  10. lubricity
  11. lubricous

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