Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lubricious

/luˈbɹɪʃəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: lu-bri-cious
IPA: /luˈbɹɪʃəs/

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Smooth and glassy; slippery.

adj

Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.

Example Sentences

"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 pre-established harmony."
"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."

Etymology

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

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /luˈbɹɪʃəs/

Inflected Forms

more lubricious (comparative) most lubricious (superlative)

Derived Forms

lubriciously lubriciousness unlubricious

Frequently Paired Words

lubricant lubricate lubricous

Synonyms

lustful prurient salacious

Rhymes With

delicious suspicious ambitious vicious malicious fictitious nutritious superstitious auspicious pernicious capricious judicious

Questions

How do you pronounce lubricious?: The recorded pronunciation is /luˈbɹɪʃəs/.
What does lubricious mean?: Smooth and glassy; slippery.
Where does lubricious come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.

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