Adjective

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Very big, large scale.

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Very good.

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Important.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:He doth object I am too great of birth.

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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

Title referring to an important leader.

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Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.

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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.

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(lb) Pregnant; large with young.

*(Bible), (Psalms) lxxviii. 71

*:the ewes great with young

More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.

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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

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Intimate; familiar.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:those that are so great with him

Adjective

(er)

Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

This rain is making the roads slick .

The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.

Appearing expensive or sophisticated.

They read all kinds of slick magazines.

Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.

That new sales rep is slick . Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.

* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:

The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.

Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick .

That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.

Extraordinarily great or special.

That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!

sleek; smooth

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Both slick and dainty.