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Slimy vs Viscid - What's the difference?

slimy | viscid |

As adjectives the difference between slimy and viscid

is that slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous while viscid is viscous; having a high viscosity.

As a noun slimy

is a ponyfish.

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.

    • viscid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Viscous; having a high viscosity.
  • Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
  • * 1906 , O. Henry,
    • They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter.
  • Covered with a viscid layer.

    • Usage notes

    In everyday usage, much less common than (viscous), with which it is roughly interchangeable. In careful usage, (term) is more often used for fluid flow, like honey, while viscid is used for a squishy, slimy feel of more solid substances, like mayonnaise.

    Synonyms

    * viscous

    Antonyms

    * inviscid

    Derived terms

    * viscidity * viscidly * viscidness

    References

    * Google define * Merriam-Webster