Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unctuous |
| Synonyms: | buttery, fulsome, insincere, oily, sleek, smarmy, smooth*, smug, suave |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | containing an oily substance |
| Synonyms: | adipose, fatlike, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, suety, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | lean |
| Main Entry: | fatty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of adipose tissue |
| Synonyms: | blubbery, fatlike, greasy, lardaceous, lardy, oily, oleaginous, rich, suety, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | defatted, lean, low-fat, thin |
| Main Entry: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greasy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slippery, oily |
| Synonyms: | anointed, creamy, daubed, fatty, lubricated, lubricious, oleaginous, pomaded, salved, slick, slimy*, slithery, smeared, swabbed, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | dry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fatty, greasy |
| Synonyms: | adipose, buttery, butyraceous, creamy, lardy, lubricant, lubricative, lubricous, lustrous, oil-soaked, oiled, oleaginous, polished, rich, saponaceous, sleek, slippery, smeary, smooth, soapy, soothing, swimming, unctuous, waxy |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | slick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, polished |
| Synonyms: | glossy, greasy, icy, lubricious, oily, oleaginous, shiny, sleek, sleeky, slippery, slithery, soapy |
| Antonyms: | coarse, rough, unpolished |
| Main Entry: | unctuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oily |
| Synonyms: | fatty, greasy, oleaginous, slick |
| Main Entry: | unctuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ingratiating |
| Synonyms: | buttery, fulsome, insincere, oleaginous, smarmy, smooth, smug, suave |
| Antonyms: | genuine, sincere |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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