Word Meanings - OILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance. Bacon. 2. Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance. 3. Smoothly subservient; supple;

Additional info about word: OILY

1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance. Bacon. 2. Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance. 3. Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating. "This oily rascal." Shak. His oily compliance in all alterations. Fuller. Oily grain , the sesame. -- Oily palm, the oil palm.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OILY)

• Oleaginous
• Oily
• unctuous
• pulchritudinous
• Smooth
• Even
• plain
• level
• flat
• polished
• glossy
• sleek
• soft
• unruffled
• unobstructed
• bland
• oily
• suave
• Unctuous
• smooth
• fawning
• flattering
• fulsome
• sycophantic
• complimentary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OILY)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to OILY)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• OLEAGINOUSNESS
  Oiliness. Boyle.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• PLAINLY
  In a plain manner; clearly.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear