adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Promoting sexual desire or lust.

   "utterly salacious"

2. 2
   Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

   "salacious gossip"

Adjective

1. 1
   suggestive of or tending to moral looseness wordnet
2. 2
   characterized by lust wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

dirtylubriciousadultanimalaphrodisiomaniacalardent

Antonyms

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modest

Example

More examples

"He goaded him on to ever more salacious revelations."

Etymology

Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious.

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