| ADJECTIVE | all | slippy, slippery | causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide |
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| Meaning | Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide. | |
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| Example | "the streets are still slippy from the rain" | |
| Synonym | slippery | |
| Narrower | lubricious | Having a smooth or slippery quality |
| 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 |
| Opposite | nonslippery | not slippery |
| Spanish | desplazable, escurridizo, resbaladizo, resbaloso | |
| Catalan | relliscós, rellisquent | |
| Nouns | slip | an unexpected slide |
| slip | a slippery smoothness | |
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