sleek
Verb
Verb Forms: sleeked, sleeking, slecks
- To make something smooth or glossy; to comb or arrange neatly.
- make slick or smooth
- To make smooth or glossy; to polish.
- To calm or soothe.
- To glide.
Adjective Satellite
- well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
- "sleek figures in expensive clothes"
- designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
- "sleek black fur"
Adj
- Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
- Glossy.
- Not rough or harsh.
- Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
- Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
- Dated form of slick (“convincing but untrustworthy”).
Adv
- With ease and dexterity.
Noun
- That which makes smooth; varnish.
Adjective
- Smooth and glossy; often implying elegance or efficiency.
Examples
- His strategy was SLEEK and effective, leading to a swift victory in Words With Friends.
- She tried to SLEEK her word choices, but the tiles simply refused to align for a bingo.
- sleek hair
Origin / Etymology
A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Synonyms
aerodynamic, flowing, satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick, streamlined, civilized, classy, clean, downy, elegant, even, flat, frictionless, gaunt, glacé, glassy, glossy, graceful, gracile, lacquerlike, lanate, lank, lean, leansome, level, lissome, lithe, lithesome, rangy, refined, sheeny, sleek, slender, slickered, slight, slim, slinky, smooth, svelte, swack, sylphlike, velutinous, velvety, vitreous, willowy
Scrabble Score: 9
sleek: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsleek: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sleek: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary