Meaning | Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide. |
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Example | "the streets are still slippy from the rain" |
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Synonym | slippery |
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Narrower | lubricious | Having a smooth or slippery quality |
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nonstick | (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles |
slick | made slick by e.g. ice or grease |
sliding | A smooth continuous motion |
slimed, slimy | Covered with or resembling slime |
slipping, slithering | Moving as on a slippery surface |
slithery | Having a slippery surface or quality |
See also | smooth | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities |
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Opposite | nonslippery | not slippery |
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Spanish | desplazable, escurridizo, resbaladizo, resbaloso |
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Catalan | relliscós, rellisquent |
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Nouns | slip | an unexpected slide |
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slip | a slippery smoothness |