slimy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite covered with or resembling slime
    slimed.
    • a slimy substance covered the rocks
  2. adjective satellite morally reprehensible
    worthless; unworthy; vile; wretched; ugly; despicable.
    • would do something as despicable as murder
    • ugly crimes
    • the vile development of slavery appalled them
    • a slimy little liar

WordNet


Slim"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Slimier ; superlative Slimiest
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
    Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

Webster 1913