Oily Synonyms and Antonyms

oilē
Rich with oil
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. greasy
  2. oleaginous
  3. fatty
  4. fulsome
  5. buttery
  6. oil-soaked
  7. rich
  8. adipose
  9. pinguid
  10. lardy
  11. bland
  12. soapy
  13. sleek
  14. soothing
  15. creamy
  16. oil-bearing
  17. oil-rich
  18. smarmy
  19. saponaceous
  20. petroliferous
  21. unctuous
  22. sebaceous
Antonyms:
  1. dry
  2. dried
  3. gritty
Having a surface suggestive of oil
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. smooth
  2. oiled
  3. waxy
  4. sleek
  5. slippery
  6. polished
  7. lustrous
  8. bright
  9. brilliant
  10. gleaming
  11. glistening
  12. shining
  13. smeary
Antonyms:
  1. rough
  2. dull
  3. unpolished
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Excessively suave or ingratiating.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unctuous
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. lubricant
  2. lubricity
  3. oiliness
  4. plasticity
  5. saponaceousness
  6. unctuosity
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Words Related to Oily

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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Oily Sentence Examples

  • Geuther, who showed that the chief product of the action of sodium on ethyl acetate was a sodium compound of composition C6H903Na, which on treatment with acids gave a colourless, somewhat oily liquid of composition C6H1003.

  • The coat is shaggy and oily, and is preferred with as little white as possible, but the general black coloration may have rusty shades.

  • It is a straight-growing tree, with grey bark and whorls of horizontal branches giving a cylindro-conical outline; the leaves are short, rigid and glaucous; the cones, oblong and rather pointing upwards, grow only near the top of the tree, and ripen in the second autumn; the seeds are oily like those of P. Pinea, and are eaten both on the Alps and by the inhabitants of Siberia; a fine oil is expressed from them which is used both for food and in lamps, but, like that of the Italian pine, it soon turns rancid.

  • They are relatively large dogs, with broad splay feet, and silky oily coats.

  • The brown testa contains, in the outer of the four coats into which it is microscopically distinguishable, an abundant secretion of mucilaginous matter; and it has within it a thin layer of albumen, enclosing a pair of large oily cotyledons.

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