oleaginous

Questions about oleaginous

What does oleaginous mean?

oleaginous means "unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oleaginous?

oleaginous has 5 syllables: o-le-ag-i-nous. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ˌoʊliˈædʒənəs/.

What is another word for oleaginous?

Close synonyms include buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oleaginous a common word?

oleaginous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.