slippery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: slippery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for slippery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slippery adj causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain" Synonym(s): slippery, slippy Antonym(s): nonslippery not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee Synonym(s): slippery, tricky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slippery \Slip"pery\, a. [See {Slipper}, a.] 1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery* promise. The slippery tops of human state. --Cowley. 3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. The slippery god will try to loose his hold. --Dryden. 4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. --Shak. 5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. [bd]The slippery state of kings.[b8] --Denham. 6. Uncertain in effect. --L'Estrange. 7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. --Shak. {Slippery elm}. (Bot.) (a) An American tree ({Ulmus fulva}) with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself. (b) A malvaceous shrub ({Fremontia Californica}); -- so called on the Pacific coast.