Thesaurus:slippery

Thesaurus

slippery

English

Adjective

Sense: having a texture that lacks friction due to being covered in liquid; hard to grip

Synonyms

• glibbery (obsolete)
• glidder (UK)
• gliddery (UK)
• greasy
• lubric (obsolete)
• lubricious
• lubricous (biology)
• slabbery
• slape (UK)
• slick
• slidder (obsolete)
• sliddery (obsolete)
• slidey
• slidy
• slimy
• slithery
• slippery
• slippery as an eel
• slippy

Antonyms

• adhesive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nonslippery
• nonslip

Hyponyms

• rain-slickened
• water-slickened
• sloppery

Hypernyms

• smooth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wet    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “255. smoothness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “slippery” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.