soapy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: soap=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

soapy, a. 

•  Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.  [1913 Webster]
•  Smeared with soap; covered with soap.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

soapy, adj. (soapier, soapiest)
1 of or like soap.
2 containing or smeared with soap.
3 (of a person or manner) unctuous or flattering.

Derivative

soapily adv. soapiness n.

THESAURUS

soapy

adipose, adulatory, barmy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cajoling, chrismal, chrismatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, disarming, fair-spoken, fat, fatty, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, foam-flecked, foamy, frothy, fulsome, glib, greasy, gushing, heady, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, lardaceous, lardy, lathery, mealymouthed, mucoid, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sebaceous, sleek, slick, slimy, slippery, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soft-soaping, soft-spoken, spumose, spumous, spumy, suave, suave-spoken, suddy, sudsy, suety, sycophantic, tallowy, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, wheedling, yeasty

ROGET THESAURUS

soapy

Servility

N servility, slavery, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, prostration, prosternation, genuflection, fawning, tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism, sycophancy, humility, sycophant, parasite, toad, toady, toad-eater, tufthunter, snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight, timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir- Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank, flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool, reptile, slave, courtier, beat, dead beat, doughface, heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler, servile, obsequious, supple, supple as a glove, soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed, beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical, abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base, mean, sneaking, crouching, hat in hand, cap in hand.

Flattery

N flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery, fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.

Unctuousness

N unctuousness, unctuosity, lubricity, ointment, anointment, lubrication, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, unguinous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous, slippery.