| Main Entry: | greasy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slippery, oily |
Synonyms: |
anointed, creamy, daubed, fatty, lubricated, lubricious, oleaginous, pomaded, salved, slick, slimy*, slithery, smeared, swabbed, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
dry |
| Main Entry: | creamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, buttery |
Synonyms: |
creamed, feathery, fluffy, gloppy, gooey, gooky, goopy, greasy, gunky, luscious, lush, milky, oily, rich, soft, velvety |
| Main Entry: | dirty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, unclean |
Synonyms: |
bedraggled, begrimed, black, contaminated, cruddy, crummy, defiled, disarrayed, dishabille, disheveled, dreggy, dungy, dusty, filthy, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, icky, lousy, messy, mucky, muddy, mung, murky, nasty, pigpen, polluted, raunchy, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smudged, smutty, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky |
Antonyms: |
clean, pure, spotless, sterile |
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, stonewalling, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, unspecific, volatile |
| Notes: | elusive is used when what is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is used when what is being avoided is direct or relevant response to a verbal challenge illusory means based on or having the nature of an illusion; elusive means difficult to describe or skillful at eluding capture |
Antonyms: |
attracting, confronting, encountering, enticing, facing, inviting |
| Main Entry: | evasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, tricky |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly, sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague |
Antonyms: |
direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | containing an oily substance |
Synonyms: |
adipose, fatlike, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, suety, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
lean |
| Main Entry: | fatty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of adipose tissue |
Synonyms: |
blubbery, fatlike, greasy, lardaceous, lardy, oily, oleaginous, rich, suety, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
defatted, lean, low-fat, thin |
| Main Entry: | grungy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty and unkempt |
Synonyms: |
cruddy, dilapidated, disgusting, disheveled, filthy, flimsy, foul, greasy, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, offensive, repellent, revolting, rundown, scummy, scuzzy, shoddy, slimy, sloppy, trashy, unclean, unwashed, vile, wretched |
| Main Entry: | muddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark and cloudy |
Synonyms: |
addled, bemired, bespattered, black, blurred, boggy, caked, confused, dingy, dirty, dull, filthy, flat, foul, fuzzy, gloomy, greasy, grimy, grubby, gummy, gunky, hazy, impure, indistinct, marshy, miry, mucky, obscure, opaque, roily, sloppy, slushy, smoky, sodden, soggy, soiled, subfuse, swampy, turbid, unclean, unclear |
Antonyms: |
bright, clean, clear |
| Main Entry: | slick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, polished |
Synonyms: |
glossy, greasy, icy, lubricious, oily, oleaginous, shiny, sleek, sleeky, slippery, slithery, soapy |
Antonyms: |
coarse, rough, unpolished |