slick – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of slick

Adjective: slick

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeslicker
Superlativeslickest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • This rain is making the roads slick.
  • The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.
  • His large round head was shaved slick.
  • my nipples got hard, and my cunt was slickwith juice. [2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/femme Erotica, Haworth Press, →ISBN:]
  • Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday. [2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN:]
  • Both slick and dainty. [[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:]
  • They read all kinds of slick magazines.
  • That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.
  • The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. [2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:]
  • Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.
  • That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.
  • I leave the train at Salisbury, where (in a very slick operation) another two-car set is added to the front of the train before it heads for London. [2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:]
  • That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!

Adjectives inflected like slick

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
2. Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”). See: Dutch Adjectives 'sluik'.

Verbs referencing "slick"

English Adjectives slight.