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- [sleek]
- /slik/
- /sliːk/
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- [sleek]
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Definitions of sleek word
- adjective sleek smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc. 1
- adjective sleek well-fed or well-groomed. 1
- adjective sleek trim and graceful; finely contoured; streamlined: a sleek sports car. 1
- adjective sleek smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave. 1
- adjective sleek cleverly or deceitfully skillful; slick: a sleek confidence man. 1
- verb with object sleek to make sleek; smooth; slick: to sleek leather. 1
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Origin of sleek
First appearance:
before 1580 One of the 35% oldest English words
First recorded in 1580-90; variant of slick1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Sleek
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sleek popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sleek usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sleek
adj sleek
- aerodynamic — If something such as a car has an aerodynamic shape or design, it goes faster and uses less fuel than other cars because the air passes over it more easily.
- agleam — glowing; gleaming
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- chatoyant — having changeable lustre; twinkling
- cottony — of or like cotton; downy; fluffy
verb sleek
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- groom — a bridegroom.
- ironing — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- whorled — having a whorl or whorls.
adv sleek
- fluently — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
noun sleek
- gloss — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glossiness — having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- levelness — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- aerodynamics — Aerodynamics is the study of the way in which objects move through the air.
adverb sleek
- aerodynamically — the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of air and other gases and with the effects of such motion on bodies in the medium. Compare aerostatics (def 1).
adjective sleek
- glazy — Having the appearance of a glaze.
- mirrorlike — Resembling a mirror; reflective.
- oily — smeared or covered with oil; greasy: an oily road surface.
- oleaginous — having the nature or qualities of oil.
Antonyms for sleek
noun sleek
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
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