Qualities
Synonyms for slick
Synonyms for slick: pat, silky and neat. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for slick
Interchangeable with slick, one per sense
Audited under slick's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one slick carries in that sense.
- patadjective, in the sense "having only superficial plausibility"
- silkyadjective, in the sense "having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name slick as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- neatneat is an adjective in the sense "superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject"
The first group is filed under slick's own senses. The second reaches slick from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
having only superficial plausibility
He gave a slick answer that explained nothing.
The true synonym
pat
Same sentence, swapped: He gave a pat answer that explained nothing.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- sly
- neat
- tactical
having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
Slick seals and otters.
The true synonym
silky
Same sentence, swapped: Silky seals and otters.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for slick in the sentence quoted.
- sly
- neat
- tactical
Where slick turns up in the game
slick is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where slick is the trap
- neatadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is orderly, in the sense "clean or organized", and slick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- tidyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is healthy, in the sense "large in amount or extent or degree", and slick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- tidyverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is straighten, in the sense "put (things or places) in order", and slick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- polishedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is refined, in the sense "showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience", and slick is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play slick
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so slick reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company slick keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. slick carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.