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Icky vs Slimy - What's the difference?

icky | slimy |

As adjectives the difference between icky and slimy

is that icky is (informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting while slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.

As a noun slimy is

a ponyfish.

icky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting
    • I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.
  • (informal) excessively sentimental

    • Related terms

    * ick

    slimy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
    • Slimy things did crawl with legs
    Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.
  • (slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.

    • Synonyms

    * (slippery) lubricous * (underhanded) conniving

    Noun

    (slimies)
  • A ponyfish.