Slick

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Smooth, glossy, and slippery: sidewalks slick with ice. See Synonyms at sleek.
  • adj. Deftly executed; adroit: "as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water” ( Tallulah Bankhead).
  • adj. Shrewd; wily.
  • adj. Superficially attractive or plausible but lacking depth or soundness: a slick writing style. See Synonyms at glib.
  • n. A smooth or slippery surface or area.
  • n. A floating film of oil.
  • n. A trail of floating material: a garbage slick.
  • n. An implement used to make a surface slick, especially a chisel used for smoothing and polishing.
  • n. Informal A magazine, usually of large popular readership, printed on high-quality glossy paper.
  • n. A racing automobile tire with a smooth tread.
  • n. Slang An unarmed military aircraft, especially a helicopter.
  • v. To make smooth, glossy, or oily.
  • v. Informal To make neat, trim, or tidy: slicked themselves up for the camera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
  • adj. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
  • adj. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
  • adj. Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.
  • adj. Extraordinarily great or special.
  • n. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
  • n. A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
  • n. A helicopter.
  • n. A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
  • n. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
  • v. To make slick
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sleek; smooth.
  • v. To make sleek or smoth.
  • n. A wide paring chisel.
  • n. A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See sleek.
  • n. In metallurgy, ore in a state of fine subdivision: as sometimes used, nearly synonymous with slimes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a magazine printed on good quality paper
  • v. give a smooth and glossy appearance
  • adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
  • n. a slippery smoothness
  • n. a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
  • n. a trowel used to make a surface slick
  • adj. marked by skill in deception
  • v. make slick or smooth
  • adj. made slick by e.g. ice or grease
  • adj. having only superficial plausibility
  • Equivalent
    bright    artful    slippy    slippery    plausible   
    Verb Form
    slicked    slicking    slicks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    magazine    mag    disentangle    comb    comb out    smoothness    trowel    smooth    shine    smoothen   
    Form
    slicken    slicker    slick back   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sleek    smooth    plump    skillful    polish    slick tyre    slick tire   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crick    Dick    Frick    Hick    Mick    Nic    Nick    Rick    Stick    Vic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    slippery    wet    sticky    shiny    moist    dirty    silky    muddy    uneven    clammy