Synonyms and Antonyms of slippery
1
given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions
- a bar where a lot of slippery characters were known to hang out
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wily
close, closemouthed, reticent, secretive
clandestine, covert, dark
deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded
cheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-faced
lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
insidious, perfidious, serpentine, treacherous
aboveboard, forthright, plainspoken, straightforward
candid, direct, foursquare, frank, open, plain
honest, trustworthy, truthful
2
hard to find, capture, or isolate
- a slippery concept that we had trouble understanding
cagey (also cagy), shifty
ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
inaccessible, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable
3
having or being a surface so smooth as to greatly reduce traction
- had trouble keeping upright on the slippery ice
brushed, buffed, burnished, glossed, ground, polished, rubbed, shined
coated, glazed, waxed
soapy, waxy
rasped, sandblasted, sanded, sandpapered, scoured, scraped, scrubbed
