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slimy
CIDE DICTIONARY
slimy, a.
Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. [1913 Webster]
"Slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea." [1913 Webster]
Upon the slimy sea." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slimy, adj. (slimier, slimiest)
1 of the consistency of slime.
2 covered, smeared with, or full of slime.
3 disgustingly dishonest, meek, or flattering.
4 slippery, hard to hold.
1 of the consistency of slime.
2 covered, smeared with, or full of slime.
3 disgustingly dishonest, meek, or flattering.
4 slippery, hard to hold.
Derivative
slimily adv. sliminess n.
THESAURUS
slimy
abject, adhesive, adulatory, amylaceous, barfy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, crappy, creeping, curdled, disgusting, doughy, fair-spoken, fawning, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fine-spoken, flattering, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gloppy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunky, gushing, heavy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, icky, insincere, insinuating, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maggoty, malodorous, mealymouthed, mephitic, mucilaginous, mucky, mucous, mushy, nasty, nauseating, obsequious, odious, oily, oily-tongued, oozy, ordurous, pasty, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, ropy, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, servile, shitty, slabby, slippery, slithery, slobbery, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, sposhy, squashy, squishy, squushy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sycophantic, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, toadying, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, uliginous, unctuous, vile, viscid, viscose, viscous, vomity, wheedling, wormy, yecchyROGET THESAURUS
slimy
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.For further exploring for "slimy" in Webster Dictionary Online