SLATHERS Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of slather

as in smears

to put a thick layer of a liquid, cream, etc. over (something) We ate lobster slathered with butter. She slathered her skin with sunscreen.

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noun

plural of slather

as in gobs

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Recent Examples of slathers

Verb

At one point, Boyle literally slathers him in spurts of newspaper ink to literalize how much blood is on his hands. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 The Iowa Specialty Crop Growers Association slathers its Strawberry Bliss in chocolate. — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 9 July 2026

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Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of smears

Noun

But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 June 2026
But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House’s South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.

— Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026

Definition of gobs

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God prepares a table for the speaker despite the presence of his enemies, anoints his head with oil, and fills his cup to overflowing.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Analysis from data and tactics writer Conor O’Neill Every World Cup anoints a breakout star, a previously unheralded player who is catapulted into the spotlight.

— David Ornstein, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of anoints

Noun

There simply wasn’t enough of either scattered across the piles, the team found.

— Mike McRae October 06, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
Nearby, the neat rows of grapevines and fig trees his family had tended for three generations had vanished under piles of rubble.

— Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of piles

Noun

About a dozen mock work stations broadcast the footage on small monitors, and visitors can study stacks of work-in-progress images that also function as flip books.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
Most security stacks were built to watch humans log in, not to watch agents act.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of stacks

Noun

There’s heaps of space to run, play, and celebrate at The Homestead—as well as to return time and time again.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The Los Angeles Dodgers x Vans Sk8-Hi and Era deliver heaps of team branding and a combo of distressing and patchwork-like assembly to separate the shoes from your baseline sports merch.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of heaps

Noun

Nestled deep among the wads of shredded paper and other bric-a-brac, the occupants made not a squeak, concealed to anyone who looked through the carrier’s door.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Photos apparently taken by the men themselves show wads of cash on the seat of a car, in a plastic bag and in stacks on the floor of a location in New York.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of wads

Noun

Last year, detectives infiltrated a private WhatsApp group used to advertise and sell large quantities of drugs, police said.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Those criteria include having an adequate footprint, ground seismology and access to large quantities of water.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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