Sleek
[sliːk] or [slik]
Definition
(adj.) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed; 'sleek figures in expensive clothes' .
Editor: Zeke--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
(superl.) Not rough or harsh.
(adv.) With ease and dexterity.
(n.) That which makes smooth; varnish.
(v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
Typist: Ora
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Smooth, glossy.
Checker: Sandra
Definition
adj. smooth: glossy: soft not rough: insinuating plausible: dexterous.—v.t. to make smooth or glossy: to calm or soothe.—v.i. to glide.—advs. Sleek Slick neatly.—v.t. Sleek′en to make smooth or sleek.—ns. Sleek′er Slick′er a tool for dressing the surface of leather.—adj. Sleek′-head′ed having a smooth head.—n. Sleek′ing the act of making smooth.—adj. Sleek′it (Scot.) having a smooth skin: sly cunning fair-spoken.—adv. Sleek′ly.—ns. Sleek′ness; Sleek′-stone a smooth stone used for polishing anything.—adj. Sleek′y smooth: sly untrustworthy.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His spear hand went far back, the muscles rolled, lightning-like, beneath the sleek hide. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His hair, which was short, sleek, and black, was just visible beneath the capacious brim of a low-crowned brown hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Ethelred