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Synonyms for greasy

Most common

fat fatty oily unctuous smeary

All synonyms

Adjective

Other

smeary

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Fat, bulky.

Related words

Word family
greasiness
Phrases
greasy spoon

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.
  • smeary You can't see a thing through these smeary windows.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
greasyrising
fatrising
fattysteady
oilysteady
unctuousrising
smearyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
fat1
4 letters
oily2
5 letters
fatty2, soapy2
6 letters
smarmy2, smeary
7 letters
buttery3, adipose3
8 letters
slippery3, unctuous2
9 letters
sebaceous3
10 letters
oleaginous5
11 letters
sycophantic4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oily2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
graisseux
Deutsch
fettig
Català
greixós