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slimy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of slimy

full of or covered with soft wet earth

please remove your slimy boots before coming into the house

Synonyms of slimy

miry, mucky, muddy, oozy, sludgy, slushy

Words Related to slimy

clayey, loamy, roily, silty

befouled, begrimed, cruddy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, gunky, impure, smutty, soiled, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly

Near Antonyms of slimy

antiseptic, clean, cleanly, immaculate, pristine, sparkling, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

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