noun
Meaning 1
The property of being slippery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
slipperiness
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noun
Meaning 2
The result or product of being slippery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the quality of being a slippery rascal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dishonesty
noun
Meaning 4
a slippery smoothness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he could feel the slickness of the tiller
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slickness, slick, slip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: smoothness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English slippery Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English slipperiness From slippery + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 滑溜 — property of being slippery
- Chinese Mandarin: 滑性 — property of being slippery
- Dutch: gladheid — property of being slippery
- Finnish: liukkaus — property of being slippery
- German: Schlüpfrigkeit — property of being slippery
- Ancient Greek: ὄλισθος (ólisthos) — property of being slippery
- Hindi: चिकनाई (ciknāī) — property of being slippery
- Hindi: चिकनाहट (ciknāhaṭ) — property of being slippery
- Latin: lubricitas — property of being slippery
- Latvian: slidenums — property of being slippery
- Old Norse: hálleikr — property of being slippery
- Spanish: resbalosidad — property of being slippery
- Swahili: utelezi — property of being slippery
- Swedish: halka — property of being slippery
- Chinese Mandarin: 滑度 — result of being slippery
- Chinese Mandarin: 濕滑狀態 /湿滑状态 (shīhuá zhuàngtài) — result of being slippery
- Finnish: liukkaus — result of being slippery