Synonyms for buttery
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Oily
oily, unctuous, fatty, fat, fulsome, soapy, smarmy, oleaginous, insincere, butyraceous, greasy, adipose, obsequious, sebaceous
Other
butterlike, butyric rare, butterish rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Made with or tasting of butter.
The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
Example sentences
- fat Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
- fatty Fats are broken down into fatty acids and glycerol.
- oily If the screw is oily or greasy, it will work loose.
- unctuous They resented how his unctuous flattery tended to obtrude into serious meetings.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| buttery | rising | |
| fat | rising | |
| fatty | steady | |
| oily | steady | |
| unctuous | rising | |
| butterlike | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 4 letters
- oily2
- 5 letters
- fatty2, soapy2
- 6 letters
- greasy2, smarmy2
- 7 letters
- adipose3, fulsome2, butyric
- 8 letters
- unctuous2
- 9 letters
- insincere3, sebaceous3, butterish
- 10 letters
- obsequious4, oleaginous5, butterlike
- 11 letters
- butyraceous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oily2 = 2 syllables).