slippery

Questions about slippery

What does slippery mean?

slippery means "causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slippery?

slippery has 3 syllables: slip-pe-ry. The stress falls on "slip". In IPA it is /ˈslɪpɚi/.

What is another word for slippery?

Close synonyms include slippy, tricky. 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.

What is the opposite of slippery?

The recorded antonyms are nonslippery.

Is slippery a common word?

slippery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.