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LUBRICOUS

Definition: LUBRICOUS

LUBRICOUS

Adjective

1. Lubric.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Lubricous \Lu"bri*cous\, adjective. [Latin expression lubricus.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: LUBRICOUS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Lubrication

Adjective: lubricated. Verb: lubricous.

Smoothness

Adjective: smooth; polished; Verb: leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; (flat); sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly; (feathery).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: LUBRICOUS

Language Translations for "LUBRICOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zhdërvjellët (agile, dexterous, dextrous, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, supple, versatile), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уклончив (cagey, circumlocutional, evasive, non committal, oblique), хлъзгав (slick, slippery), циничен (cynical, filthy, indecent, naughty, scurrilous, smutty), гладък (clean, even, facile, flat, fluent, fluid, glace, level, round, satiny, sleek, slick, smooth, unctuous, unruffled), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kluzký (glassy, greasy, slippery). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubricouslay

   

Portuguese

  

lúbrico (lewd, lustful, prurient, sensual), sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicureanism, fleshpot, goatling, high-sounding, incontinently, laser, Lewis, libidinousness, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratum, fickle, incandesce, inconstant, infirm, kid glove, labor, mobile home, mutable, off balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, Tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), inconstância (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, instability, levity, mutable, variability, versatility), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubtless, Dublin, fitful, floating bridge, hazardous cargo, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, Kittle, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), escorregadio (slick, slippery, slippy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nestatornic (changeable, fickle, flyaway, giddy, mobile, mutable, ticklish, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, variably, versatile, volatile, wayward). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, lank, level, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, unruffled), похотливый (concupiscent, fulsome, goatish, lascivious, lewd, lickerish, lustful, prurient, rammish, randy, salacious). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ljigav (saponaceous, slimy, slippery, slippy), klizav (glib, slick, sliding, slippery, slippy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lúbrico (lubric, lubricious). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zampara (debauchee, fornicator, goat, lecher, lecherous, lubricious, masher, rake, roue, wolf, womanizer), kaypak (elusive, greasy, shifty, sleek, slippery, unctuous, unreliable), kaygan (greasy, lubricious, slick, slippery, slippy, slithery). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xảo quyệt hay thay đổi, trơn; dễ trượt không trung thực, không kiên định t dâm, giả dối (hollow-hearted, insincere). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LUBRICOUS

Misspellings

"LUBRICOUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auricomus, lubricus, lubrious, ludricous, Lumbricus, Ruricius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LUBRICOUS"

Words rhyming with "LUBRICOUS" (pronounced 'Lu"bri*cous'): Aduncous, Amurcous, Anasarcous, Anticous, Bellicous, Bifurcous, Bisulcous, Boracous, Caducous, Caricous, Corticous, Couscous, Festucous, Fruticous, fuscous, Glaucous, Leucous, Malacostracous, Molluscous, Monoicous, Monotocous, Mucous, Noctilucous, Obuncous, Ochroleucous, Opacous, Pentacoccous, Petulcous, Polymeniscous, Polytocous, raucous, Rebucous, Reciprocous, Rescous, Sarcous, Semiopacous, Spicous, Subfuscous, Submucous, Suffruticous, Uncous, Varicous, Verrucous, Viscous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LUBRICOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-i-l-o-r-s-u-u"

-2 letters: curious, rubious.

-3 letters: broils, cibols, clours, coulis, curios, lubric, oculus, sorbic.

-4 letters: birls, blocs, blurs, boils, bolus, boric, brios, broil, burls, cibol, clour, clubs, coils, coirs, cribs, curbs, curio, curls, locus, loris, louis, lours, oculi, roils, rubus, scour, scrub, slurb, sulci.

-5 letters: bios, birl, bloc, blur, boil, brio, bris, bros, burl, burs, club, cobs.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-i-l-o-r-s-u-u"
 

+1 letter: lubricious.

 

+3 letters: lubriciously, lucubrations, microtubules, suborbicular, tuberculosis.

 

+4 letters: elucubrations.

 

+5 letters: arboricultures, rambunctiously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LUBRICOUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 55 42 52 49 43 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..-    -...    .-.    ..    -.-.    ---    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01010101 01000010 01010010 01001001 01000011 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#66 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0042 0052 0049 0043 004F 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

465536524337495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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