Synonyms for Oily | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "oily" (116 found)

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Closest matches (24)

Adjective(4 words)

adipose adulatory artful bland blandishing blarneying blubbery buttery butyraceous cajoling canting chrismal chrismatory complimentary courtierly courtly disarmingfair spokenfair-spoken fat

Strong matches (34)

fatty fawningfine spokenfine-spoken flattering fulsome glibgoody goodygoody-goody greased greasy gushingholier-than-thouhoney-mouthed honey-tongued honeyed hypocritic hypocritical ingratiating insincere

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insinuating lardaceous lardy lubric lubricated lubricious

Adjective(6 words)

french huilefulsome glib greasier greasiest lubricated

Noun(2 words)

fried fishlubricating

Related words (58)

mealy-mouthed mealymouthed mucoid obsequious oiled oily-tongued oleaginous oleic pecksniffian pharisaic pharisaical pharisean pious rich sanctimonious sebaceous servilesimon puresimon-pure sleek

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Verb(1 words)

oiled the surface

Noun(1 words)

oilfish

Adjective(6 words)

oilier oiliest oleaginous sebaceous slick soapy

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

behavioral traitpersonality traitphysical propertysocial behaviorsurface propertytexture property

More specific

7 entries

glibnessgreasy filmoil coatingoil filmoil layersmarm unctuousness

Collocations

5 entries

oily coatingoily filmoily residueoily skinoily surface

Inflections

2 entries

oilier oiliest

Derivations

1 entries

oiliness

similar

7 entries

coated dirty fat fatty insincere soiled unclean

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My clothes have an oily smell because I ate at an okonomiyaki place.

Source: tatoeba (64498)

She has oily skin.

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Tom has oily skin.

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I didn't eat all the fries because they were too oily.

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