slimy

adjective

ˈslī-mē 

slimier; slimiest

1

: of, relating to, or resembling slime : viscous

also : covered with or yielding slime

2

: vile, offensive

slimily

ˈslī-mə-lē 

adverb

sliminess

ˈslī-mē-nəs 

noun

Synonyms

• miry
• mucky
• muddy
• oozy
• sludgy
• slushy

Examples of slimy in a Sentence

Get your slimy fingers off my jacket.

please remove your slimy boots before coming into the house

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s a lot of cleaning equipment, chopping frozen fish for fish smoothies and scrubbing slimy pinniped poop out of the pens. —Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

The murder is our slimy protagonist’s thin-skinned response to Alberto mocking a moment of apparent vulnerability on the Penguin’s part. —Judy Berman, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024

Director Bong Joon-ho serves up a delicious cocktail of horror, humor, and biting social satire as a dysfunctional family battles bureaucracy and a slimy, gene-spliced menace. —Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

Just imagine the stripes on Freddy Krueger’s shirt a slightly slimier shade of green. —Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

slimy

adjective

ˈslī-mē 

slimier; slimiest

1

a

: of, relating to, or resembling slime : viscous

b

: covered with or producing slime

2

: vile sense 1a, offensive

sliminess noun