slippery
Adjective
- Causing or tending to cause slipping; evasive or tricky.
- causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
- "slippery sidewalks"
- "a slippery bar of soap"
Adjective Satellite
- not to be trusted; - James Agee
- "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"
Adj
- Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- Evasive; difficult to pin down.
- Liable to slip; not standing firm.
- Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
- Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
Examples
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Oily substances render things slippery.
- The board felt slippery with so many open spaces; every play could lead to a counterattack.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English slipperie, an extended form ( + -y) of Middle English slipper, sliper (“slippery”), from Old English slipor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”), equivalent to slip + -er. Compare also Middle English slibbri, slubbri (“slippery”) borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slibberich (“slippery”). Cognate with German schlüpfrig (“slippery”), Danish slibrig (“slippery”), Swedish slipprig (“slippery”).
Synonyms
slippy, tricky, glibbery, glidder, gliddery, greasy, lubric, lubricious, lubricous, slabbery, slape, slick, slidder, sliddery, slidey, slidy, slimy, slippery, slippery as an eel, slithery, wet
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
slippery: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordslippery: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slippery: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary