The meaning of Slimy

adjective

(of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree.

Usage examples:

His letter plunged her into abject misery

adjective

Tending to form clots; sticky.

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Claggy mud

adjective

Thick and sticky

Usage examples:

The soil in the garden was thick, claggy clay., the claggy weather in the west will clear to leave …

adjective

Unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch.

Usage examples:

His skin felt cold and clammy

adjective

Slightly wet and cool, in an unpleasant way

Usage examples:

Her forehead was hot, but her hands were clammy.

adjective

Bent in fear or apprehension.

Usage examples:

He lugged his carry-on bag and computer case past cringing passengers wary of being hit

verb

Bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.

Usage examples:

He cringed away from the blow

adjective

Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious.

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Fawning adoration

verb

(of a deer) produce young.

Usage examples:

The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

verb

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.

adjective

Thick or sticky

Usage examples:

The pies had an unpleasantly gloopy texture., add a banana to make the smoothies lovely and gloopy.

adjective

Like glue in texture; sticky.

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Glutinous mud

adjective

Sticky

Usage examples:

Short-grain rice turns into a soft, glutinous mass when cooked.

adjective

Soft and sticky.

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A gooey chocolate dessert

adjective

(of a substance) thick and sticky

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A gooey dessert

adjective

Covered with, resembling, or produced by grease or oil.

Usage examples:

He wiped his greasy fingers

adjective

Covered with or full of grease

Usage examples:

These french fries are too greasy.

adjective

Acting obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour.

Usage examples:

His grovelling references to ‘great’ historians

noun

Obsequious behaviour aimed at obtaining forgiveness or favour.

Usage examples:

It was time to give in and do a bit of grovelling

verb

Lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards.

Usage examples:

He grovelled at george's feet

adjective

Having a viscous or sticky consistency.

Usage examples:

A gummy discharge

noun

A small edible shark of australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey.

Usage examples:

But today he is singing the praises of a non-commercial creature - the humble eel, which he says ha…

adjective

Showing the gums

Usage examples:

The baby gave her a gummy smile., a gummy label, i adore melon gummies., gummies covered with choco…

adjective

Unpleasantly sticky or messy.

Usage examples:

They began rinsing the gunky tar from the excavated soil

adjective

Intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic.

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An ingratiating manner

verb

Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

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A sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy

adjective

Very muddy or boggy.

Usage examples:

The roads were miry in winter

adjective

Consisting of deep, wet, sticky earth that is difficult to move through

Usage examples:

The meadows between the village and the churchyard were wet and miry., the road was so miry that th…

adjective

Having a viscous or gelatinous consistency.

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A mucilaginous paste

adjective

Covered with dirt or filth.

Usage examples:

He took off his mucky boots

adjective

Dirty

Usage examples:

Get your mucky feet off that chair!, don't walk all over my clean floor in your mucky boots., a muc…

adjective

Involving, resembling, or of the nature of mucus.

Usage examples:

After classification of the nature of the sputum, those patients with macroscopically mucoid sample…

adjective

Relating to, producing, covered with, or of the nature of mucus.

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Blood loss through the rectum, mucous discharge, altered bowel habit, and straining are common feat…

adjective

Relating to mucus (= a slippery lubricant and protective substance)

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Mucous membrane/secretion/tissue

adjective

Covered in or full of mud.

Usage examples:

They changed their muddy boots

verb

Cover or fill (something) with mud.

Usage examples:

The linoleum flooring was muddied

adjective

Covered by or containing mud (= wet, sticky earth)

Usage examples:

Don't bring those muddy boots inside!, muddy water, the room has been painted in muddy browns and g…

adjective

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Usage examples:

They were served by obsequious waiters

adjective

Too eager to serve or obey someone

Usage examples:

She is embarrassingly obsequious to anyone in authority.

adjective

Containing oil.

Usage examples:

Taramasalata and hummus are both oily and rich

adjective

Rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily.

Usage examples:

Fabrics would quickly become filthy in this oleaginous kingdom

adjective

Extremely polite, kind, or helpful in a false way that is intended to bring some advantage to yourself

adjective

Thick, soft, and sticky

Usage examples:

It's a delicious but very oozy cheese that starts to spread out almost as soon as you remove the wr…

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of reptiles.

Usage examples:

The reptilian ancestors of mammals

noun

An animal belonging to the class reptilia ; a reptile.

adjective

Servile or submissive.

Usage examples:

He noted the slavish, feudal respect they had for her

adjective

(of a surface or object) difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is smooth, wet, or slimy.

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Slippery ice

adjective

Sliding easily or causing something to slide because of being wet, smooth, or oily

Usage examples:

The sidewalks were slippery with ice., choosing the perfect juror can be a slippery matter., he is …

adjective

Slippery.

Usage examples:

The towpath was slippy with mud

adjective

A slippy surface causes you to slip easily because it is wet or smooth

Usage examples:

Careful - i've just polished the floor and it's a bit slippy.

adjective

If something is slithery, it is wet or smooth so that it moves easily and quickly across a surface while twisting or curving, or causes something to slide in this way

Usage examples:

We now had to get back down the slithery path in the cold and dark., she felt something slithery ag…

adjective

Soft, wet, and very thick

Usage examples:

A thick, sludgy pudding

adjective

Tending or designed to stick to things on contact.

Usage examples:

Sticky cakes and pastries

noun

A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, used for leaving messages or reminders.

Usage examples:

Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents …

adjective

Difficult to deal with or solve

Usage examples:

A sticky situation, a sticky issue, you had better wash your sticky fingers.

adjective

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

Usage examples:

She was subservient to her parents

adjective

Willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people

Usage examples:

In the past, women were viewed as subservient to men., your subservience to your boss disgusts me.

adjective

Willing to do what another person, organization, etc. wants, and considering your aims or wishes to be less important than those of others

Usage examples:

A subservient position/role, subservient to sb/sth critics say the federal aviation agency remains …

adjective

Behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Usage examples:

A sycophantic interview

adjective

(of a person or of behaviour) praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

Usage examples:

She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Usage examples:

He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

noun

A pufferfish.

adjective

Excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily.

Usage examples:

He seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way

adjective

Unctuous people or behaviour expresses too much praise, interest, friendliness, etc., in a way that is false and unpleasant

Usage examples:

His unctuous manner/voice/smile

adjective

Having a glutinous or sticky consistency.

Usage examples:

The viscid mucus lining of the intestine

adjective

A viscid liquid is thick and sticky

Usage examples:

The cysts are filled with viscid fluid., lava, even at its hottest, is somewhat viscid, like treacl…

adjective

Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity.

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Viscous lava

adjective

(of a liquid) thick and sticky; not flowing easily

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Viscous oil

adjective

Covered or saturated with water or another liquid.

Usage examples:

She followed, slipping on the wet rock

verb

Cover or touch with liquid; moisten.

Usage examples:

He wetted a finger and flicked through the pages

noun

Liquid that makes something damp.

Usage examples:

I could feel the wet of his tears