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Main Entry: oily
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fatty, greasy

Synonyms:

adipose, buttery, butyraceous, creamy, lardy, lubricant, lubricative, lubricous, lustrous, oil-soaked, oiled, oleaginous, polished, rich, saponaceous, sleek, slippery, smeary, smooth, soapy, soothing, swimming, unctuous, waxy

Antonyms:

dry
Main Entry: oily
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flattering

Synonyms:

bland*, cajoling, coaxing, compliant, fulsome, glib, gushing, hypocritical, ingratiating, insinuating, obsequious, plausible, servile, slick, smarmy, smooth, smooth-tongued, suave, supple, unctuous

Antonyms:

hateful
Related Words
Main Entry: oily
Part of Speech: adjective
Related
Adjectives:
oily, adipose, butyraceous, butyric, cereous, fat, fatty, greasy, lardaceous, liparoid, oleaginous, pinguedinous, pinguid, pinguinitescent, pomadig, saponaceous, sebaceous, slick, slippery, soapy, unctuous, unguinous, waxy
Main Entry: bland
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly, gracious

Synonyms:

affable, amiable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, pleasant, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane

Antonyms:

blase, dull, unfriendly, ungracious
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: 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: fulsome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sickening or excessive behavior

Synonyms:

adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling

Antonyms:

reasonable, sincere
Main Entry: hypocritical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, pretending

Synonyms:

affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable

Antonyms:

actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright
Main Entry: juicy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: moist

Synonyms:

dank, dewy, dripping, humid, liquid, luscious, lush, mellow, oily, oozy, pulpy, sappy, saturated, sauced, slippery, slushy, soaked, sodden, succulent, syrupy, viscid, watery, wet

Antonyms:

dry
Main Entry: obsequious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: groveling, submissive

Synonyms:

abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous

Antonyms:

arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous
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