slippery

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Adjective

slippery (comparative slipperier, superlative slipperiest)

1. 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.
2. (figuratively, by extension, of a person) Evasive; difficult to pin down.

Derived terms

• slippery customer
• slippery slope
• slippery as an eel
• Slippery Nipple

Related terms

• slip

Synonyms

• (of a surface): greasy, slick, slimy, slippy, wet

Antonyms

• (of a surface): sticky

Translations

of a surface

Basque: labaingarriak (eu) Catalan: lliscant (ca) Croatian: kliženje (hr) Czech: kluzký (cs) m. Danish: glat Dutch: glibberig; glad Esperanto: glita (eo) Finnish: liukas (fi) French: glissant (fr) m., glissante (fr) f. German: rutschig (de) Hungarian: csúszós (hu)

Italian: scivoloso (it) m., scivolosa (it) f. Korean: 미끄럽다 (ko) Kurdish: خلیسک Navajo: nahateeł Persian: لیز (fa) Polish: śliski (pl) Portuguese: escorregadio (pt) Russian: скользкий (ru) (skól'zkij) Scottish Gaelic: sleamhainn (gd) Spanish: resbaladizo (es), escurridizo (es) Turkish: kaygan (tr)

Evasive; difficult to pin down

Russian: увёртливый (ru), скользкий (ru)