Slimy vs Slippery - What's the difference?
slimy | slippery | Synonyms |
Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
(slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.
A ponyfish.
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
(figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
(obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
* 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
unstable; changeable; inconstant
* Denham
(obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
* 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
Slippery is a synonym of slimy.
As adjectives the difference between slimy and slippery
is that slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous while slippery is of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.As a noun slimy
is a ponyfish.slimy
English
Adjective
(er)- Slimy things did crawl with legs
- Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.
Synonyms
* (slippery) lubricous * (underhanded) connivingNoun
(slimies)slippery
English
Adjective
(er)- Oily substances render things slippery .
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Which when they fall, as being slippery' standers, / The love that leaned on them, as ' slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- The slippery state of kings.
- My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –
