Dictionary Entry
slippery
slippery is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
- 2adjective
Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
- 3adjective
Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
- 4adjective
Liable to slip; not standing firm.
- 5adjective
Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
- 6adjective
Uncertain in effect.
- 7adjective
Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
- 8adjective
causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
"slippery sidewalks"
"a slippery bar of soap"
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- 9adjective
not to be trusted- James Agee
"how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"
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