salacious
/səˈleɪ.ʃəs/
salacious adjective: promoting sexual desire or lust.
Adjective
salacious (comparative more salacious, superlative most salacious)
salacious meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
salacious in Urdu
- شہوانی
salacious in Bengali
- অশ্লীল, কামোদ্দীপক
salacious in Malayalam
- obscene, pornographic, indecent
- അശ്ലീലമായ, അശ്ലീലസാഹിത്യമായ, അശ്ലീലചിത്രമോ സാഹിത്യമോ ഉൾക്കൊണ്ട, അശ്ലീലാശയങ്ങൾ നിറഞ്ഞ, കാമോദ്ദീപക, മദന
- licentious, lustful, lecherous
- കാമാതുരമായ, അമിത ലെെംഗികാസക്തിയുള്ള, ലമ്പടനായ, വിഷയലമ്പടനായ, കാമചാരിയായ, കാമയമാന
salacious in Kannada
- ಹೊಲಸು, ಹಾದರದ, ರೋಸಿ ಹೋಗುವ, ಕಾಮುಕ, ಅಶ್ಲೀಲವಾದ, ಕಾಮ ಪ್ರಚೋದಕ
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- salacious in Thai
- ยั่วยวน, แซ่บ sɛ̂p
Examples of salacious in a sentence
- The newspaper published a salacious story about the scandal.
- He was arrested for distributing salacious material.
Synonyms of salacious
Forms of salacious
| comparative | more salacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most salacious |
Origin of salacious
Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious, ultimately from saliō + -acious.
Words formed from salacious
Words that rhyme with salacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about salacious
- What does salacious mean?
- Salacious means promoting sexual desire or lust.
- What is salacious in Urdu?
- Salacious in Urdu is شہوانی. See Salacious meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use salacious in a sentence?
- The newspaper published a salacious story about the scandal.
- What part of speech is salacious?
- Salacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce salacious?
- Salacious is pronounced /səˈleɪ.ʃəs/.
Words near salacious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: salacious (page history and authors); salacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); salacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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