Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
- adj. Lustful; bawdy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lustful; lecherous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by lust
- adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Etymologies
- From Latin salāx ("provocative, lustful"), from saliō ("leap, jump; copulate"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Starting with “Married With Children”, the Fox network has always been the leader in salacious programming.”
“Not that the sex is positive; while it has a certain salacious appeal, Auto Focus captures that sense of steadily-declining standards that marks the truly obsessed.”
“Kind of like the word salacious during the Clinton impeachment area.”
“In an era when memoirs are often characterized by salacious confessions, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin restores a refreshing element of innocence to the genre in Wait Till Next Year….”
“I thought it was going to be salacious photograph .... but that would be turning the word salacious on its head”
“Yet if this was reason enough for the failure of Egyptian writers to indulge in the kind of salacious detail that the Greeks and the Romans so relished, then there was also a broader cultural explanation.”
“And while it has been marketed as "salacious," aside from a few anecdotes about players hooking up with local girls (some not of legal age) and a slew of raunchy actions in the clubhouse, McCarthy left a lot out.”
“Some activists are pressing hard on the "Foley Child Molestor" talking points because they believe this kind of salacious description is what it will take to win points in the next election.”
“Late last month the venerable New York Times was in the cross hairs and, before that, campaign manager Rick Davis dubbed as "salacious" the media's vetting of Sarah Palin that so clearly hadn't been done by McCain himself.”
Brian Normoyle: Liberal Media to Blame? Not This Time: Apostate Conservatives Nail Coffin Shut
“Which I am sure is not any kind of salacious double entendre, and instead refers to those glowy tubes you buy at a rave.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salacious’.
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 185 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Funny, yuck, or funny yuck
galactorrhea, trope, salacious, ignominious, bucolic, vivacious, mollify, titillate, castigate, panjandrum, zany
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Usable
heathery, delude, pander, revolute, affinity, perturb, dissuade, procure, salacious, counterbalance, listless, auspicate and 8 more...
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
moribund, unflagging, defunct, sated, inveigling, opining, needling, fulminating, lauding, vassals, serfs, minions and 86 more...
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GRE Reference
A list of words unfamiliar to me that I have repeatedly encountered in GRE question sets.
parochial, clique, salacious, aegis, ostracize, conceited, sacrilegious, inane, serendipity, gourmand, polemic, tenuous and 138 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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Naughty
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for salacious.
jz The antonym is incorrect. Jun 12, 2009
reesetee Sassy. Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear You're right! It sounds slithery and sizzly and sibilant all at once. Nov 30, 2007
laescapia I love the sound, the shape, the implications of this word . . .
Nov 29, 2007