Slick

//slɪk//

Synonyms for "slick" (337 found)

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Closest matches (68)

glib guileful slippery acute adept adipose adroit anal anoint apt arch artful artfully articulate artistic astute astutely authoritative bald beeswax

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Adjective(6 words)

a+a-plus awesome bully dandy def

Adjective(2 words)

crafty cunning

Strong matches (101)

Related words (168)

oleaginous oleic on the sly pawky perfect plausible polish polished politic pomade primp professional proficient quick quick-witted quite some ready refine resourceful rich

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round rub rubbed salve satiny scheming scour sebaceous serpentine shallow sharp sharp-witted shellacked shiftily shifty shine shining shiny shipshape shrewd shrewdly silken silklike silky silver silver tongued silver-tongued skillful sleek slick down slick on slick tire slickness sliddery slide slip slipper slippy slither slithery sly slyly smarmy smart smarten up smear smooth smooth the way smooth tongued smooth-spoken smooth-tongued smoothly smug snaky sneaky snug soap the ways soaped soapy some sophistical sophisticated specious spellbinding spiff spruce spruce up statesmanlike stealthy strategic stylish suave subtile subtilely subtle subtlely suety superficial supple sycophantic tactful tactical tallowy the compleat the complete tidy tight toggle trickily trickish tricksy tricky trig trim tullian unctuous unguent unguentary unguentous unreliable urbane varnish varnished velvety virtuoso vocalize vulpine warily wary wax well done well-cared-for well-done well-groomed well-kept well-spoken wilily wily wise workmanlike

Adjective(10 words)

pat satiny silken silklike silky sleek sly tricksy tricky wily

Adjective(9 words)

peng phat rad sick slight top shelf topping wicked wonderful

Verb(3 words)

sleek sleek down slick down

Noun(6 words)

slick magazine slick tire slick tyre slickness slip slipperiness

Related word relations

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

11 relation types

More general

12 entries

comb comb out disentangle film mag magazine polish shine smooth smoothen smoothness trowel

Synonyms

6 entries

facile glib guileful silklike slick tire slickness

Related terms

10 entries

outslick slick as snot slick back slick cam slick down slick up slick-tech slicken slicker slickstone

coordinate

1 entries

crack

derived

5 entries

Slick Willie big slick little slick oil slick slick as a whistle

form of

1 entries

schlich

has context

6 entries

automotive military printing slang sports us

is a

3 entries

film magazine trowel

manner of

2 entries

comb polish

related to

10 entries

chisel expensive helicopter joinery oil pare slippery smooth sophisticated tire

similar

7 entries

artful bright plausible slippery slippy superficial

Translations

105 translations across 21 languages.

Bulgarian

4 entries

изкусен adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
лъскав adj (appearing expensive or sophisticated)
плъзгав adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
повърхностен adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)

Catalan

1 entries

marea negra noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)

Czech

4 entries

bravurní adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
hladký adj (sleek, smooth)
kluzký adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
mazaný adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)

Dutch

2 entries

slick noun (tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern)
slijk noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)

Finnish

4 entries

lipevä adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
liukas adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
näppärä adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
taitava adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)

French

3 entries

glissant adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
nappe noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)
pneu lisse noun (tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern)

Galician

1 entries

pneumático liso noun (tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern)

German

4 entries

gekonnt adj (appearing expensive or sophisticated)
glitschig adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
raffiniert adj ((US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special)
schlau adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)

Hungarian

4 entries

cseles adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
csúszós adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
dörzsölt adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
elegáns adj (appearing expensive or sophisticated)

Ingrian

1 entries

lippiä adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)

Irish

1 entries

leo noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)

Italian

4 entries

falso adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
scaltro adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
sdrucciolevole adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
viscido adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)

Japanese

4 entries

つるつるな adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
ギトギトな adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
つるつるする verb (make slick with substance)
ギトギトする verb (make slick with substance)

Korean

1 entries

기름띠 noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)

Latvian

1 entries

slidens adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)

Russian

4 entries

ло́вкий adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
ско́льзкий adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
ско́льзкий adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
у́мный adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)

Slovak

2 entries

kĺzky adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
šmykľavý adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)

Spanish

4 entries

astuto adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
elegante adj (appearing expensive or sophisticated)
hábil adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
ingenioso pero insubstancial adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)

Swedish

1 entries

schyst adj ((US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special)

Turkish

4 entries

akıllıca adj (clever, making an apparently hard task easy)
kaygan adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
kurnazca adj (superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy)
kurnazca adj ((US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special)

Welsh

2 entries

slic adj (slippery due to a covering of liquid)
stremp noun (covering of liquid, particularly oil)

Sample sentences

39 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Don't swallow that slick propaganda.

Source: tatoeba (50652)

If I don't wash my hair for a day, it becomes slick with oil and flat.

Source: tatoeba (507210)

Watch your step! It's slick out!

Source: tatoeba (6583497)

I’ll just slick my hair back.

Source: tatoeba (7091312)

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