SLIMY (slimier, slimiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: slimier    , slimiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slimy mean? 

• SLIMY (adjective)
  The adjective SLIMY has 2 senses:

1. covered with or resembling slime

2. morally reprehensible

  Familiarity information: SLIMY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIMY (adjective)

Comparative: slimier   
Superlative: slimiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with or resembling slime

Synonyms:

slimed; slimy

Context example:

a slimy substance covered the rocks

Similar:

slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)

Derivation:

slime (any thick, viscous matter)

sliminess (a property resembling or being covered with slime)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Morally reprehensible

Synonyms:

despicable; slimy; ugly; unworthy; vile; worthless; wretched

Context example:

a slimy little liar

Similar:

evil (morally bad or wrong)

Derivation:

sliminess (the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions)

 Context examples 

For the third time the drowning man came to the surface, his hands full of green slimy water-plants, his eyes turned in despair to the shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And never had the white men seemed such marvellous gods as now, when he trod the slimy pavement of San Francisco.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“There's no hurry at present, you know, Master Copperfield,” Uriah proceeded, in his slimy way, as I sat gazing at him, with this thought in my mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nor was that all, for crawling together on flat tables of rock or letting themselves drop into the sea with loud reports I beheld huge slimy monsters—soft snails, as it were, of incredible bigness—two or three score of them together, making the rocks to echo with their barkings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high-water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb-tide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)