Salacious

Definition: Salacious

Salacious

Adjective

1. Characterized by lust; "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".

2. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "salacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

Etymology: Salacious \Sa*la"cious\, noun. [Latin expression salax, -acis, fond of leaping, lustful, from salire to leap. See Salient.]. (references)

Synonyms: Salacious

Impurity

Concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.

Crosswords: Salacious

Books

• The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Salacious Rockabilly Cat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Trade

Bahrain

These include irradiated food products; weapons, except under special license; pornography and materials considered salacious; wild animals; radio-controlled model airplanes; children's toys containing methyl chloride and other articles declared injurious by the Ministry of Health; and foodstuffs and sweets containing cyclamates. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), epshndjellës (lascivious, sensualist, voluptuous), banal (banal, blue, broad, common or garden, copybook, corny, hackneyed, platitudinous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مثير للشهوة (erotic, sexy), ‏عاهر (adulterer, common, licentious), ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm), ‏شبق (libidinous, lickerish, lust, lustful, rut, salaciousness, satyr, sultriness), ‏داعر (bawdy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, naughty, obscene, obscenity, pornographic, raffish, scarlet, sensual, wanton), ‏بذئ (abusive, blue, broad, curious, saucy, scurrilous, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сластен (voluptuous), неприличен (bawdy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), порнографски (filthy, libidinous, obscene, pornographic, sexy), похотлив (carnal, concupiscent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, prurient, raunchy, rutish), пикантен (gamy, gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, rich, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty). (various references)

Czech

oplzlý (bawdy, dirty, gross, impure, lewd, obscene, scurrilous, uncouth, vile), necudný (greasy, impure, lascivious, unchaste), chlípný (lecherous, prurient, rammish, Randy, ruttish). (various references)

Farsi 

هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Sordid), شهوتران (Lecher, Licentious, Oversexed, Voluptuous), شهوت پرست (Lecherous, Lewd, Voluptuous), شهوانی (Brutal, Carnal, Lascivious, Lecherous, Lustful, Passionate, Random, Ruttish, Sensual, Voluptuous). (various references)

French

salace, lubrique, licencieux, grivois (saucy). (various references)

German

schlüpfrig (blue, juicy, lascivious, lasciviously, lewd, off color, oozy, risque, slick, slipperily, slippery, slithery), wollüstig (ecstatic, lascivious, lecherous, lecherously, lustful, lusty, sensual, voluptuous), aufreizend (egging, infuriatingly, irritant, maddening, provocative, slinkily, slinky, suggestively, tantalizing, tantalizingly), anzüglich (abusive, lewd, lewdly, nasty, offensive, suggestive, suggestively). (various references)

Greek 

λάγνοσ (concupiscent, lecher, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, prurient, sexy), αισχρόσ (bawdy, disgraceful, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, shameful, shocking, smutty, wicked). (various references)

Hebrew 

תאות� י (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, passionate, prurient, sensual, voluptuous), של זימ�", של � בול פ�" (bawdy, obscene), ע�'ב� י (lusty, sensual, sexual), חשק� י (amorous, desirous, prurient). (various references)

Hungarian

buja (concupiscent, concupisible, erotic, exuberant, gross, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, luscious, lush, lustful, luxuriant, pornerastic, prurient, rampant, rich, wanton), érzéki (amatory, amorous, carnal, concupiscent, erotic, lecherous, libidinous, luscious, prurient, sensational, sensory, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous). (various references)

Italian

salace (racy), lussurioso (lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, voluptuous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

Ｈな� �"� (pornographic film, salacious film), エッチな� �"� (etching, hit point, home page, HP, pornographic film, salacious film). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

エッチなえいが (pornographic film, salacious film). (various references)

Manx

gimmanagh (debauched, smutty, unchaste, wanton). (various references)

Pig Latin

alacioussay.(various references)

Portuguese

salaz, libertino (free thinker, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, lothario, lovelace, playboy, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rep, ribald, rioter, roue, wanton, wasteful), impuro (drossy, impure, muddy, obscene, unchaste, unclean, uncound), impudico (immodest, impure, lewd), devasso (bawdry, dissolute, free thinker, immoral, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, rakish, roue, wanton, wasteful). (various references)

Romanian

senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, Randy, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), lasciv (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, liquorish, prurient, Randy, wanton), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references)

Russian 

сальный (bawdy, greasy, lardy, lewd, sebaceous, tallowy), сладострастный (aphrodisiac, lascivious, libidinous, venereal, voluptuous), распутный (dissolute, lecherous, lewd, libertine, meretricious, profligate, promiscuous, rakish, wenchy), непристойный (bawdy, beastly, coarse, dirty, disorderly, greasy, nasty, obscene, pawpaw, ribald, salty, scurrilous, smutty, unchaste, uncomely, unseemly), похотливый (concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish, lubricous, lustful, prurient, rammish, randy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pohotljiv (concupiscent, fleshly, goatish, goaty, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, lusty, prurient, rammish, randy, voluptuous). (various references)

Spanish

salaz. (various references)

Swedish

slipprig (indecent, lascivious, obscene, slippery, slithery), oanständig (bawdy, fie-fie, filthy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, scabrous, scurrilous). (various references)

Thai

เต็มไป�"้วยตั�"หา. (various references)

Turkish

müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), şehvetli (concupiscent, fleshly, hot, lascivious, lustful, prurient, sensual, voluptuous), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпусний (bestial, debauched, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, rakish, riotous, wide), що виклика�" похіть, непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), похітливий (concupiscent, lustful, prurient, rammish, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tục tĩu (coarse, foul, gross, grossly, naughty, obscene, ribald, scurrilous), dâm ô (unchaste, wanton). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "salacious": salaciously, salaciousness, salaciousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Salacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alaiou, Balasoiu, palaious, sabacious, Sabazius, salacioua, salaciouas, salatious, Salbakos, salicious, sallacious, salonius, salvanius, Saracouu, scalacious, selaceous, selacious, silicious, sillacious, solicious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: asocial, casuals, causals, socials.

-3 letters: assail, assoil, cassia, casual, caulis, causal, coalas, coulis, oscula, social.

-4 letters: alias, ascus, assai, aulic, calos, casas, casus, cauls, class, coala, coals, coils, colas, cusso, laics, lasso, locus, louis, oasis, oculi, ossia, sails, salic, salsa, sauls, sials, silos, sisal, soils, solus, souls, sulci.

-5 letters: aals, ails, alas, also, asci.

+2 letters: sagaciously, salaciously.

+3 letters: sacculations.

+4 letters: auscultations, autocatalysis, emasculations, salaciousness.

+5 letters: constabularies, consubstantial, encapsulations, fallaciousness, fasciculations, suballocations, vulcanisations.