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slickness

/ˈslɪknɪs/

slickness noun: the property of being slick.

Noun

slickness (plural slicknesses)

  1. The property of being slick.
    • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.1959 June, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408

slickness meaning in Urdu

slickness in Urdu

چکناہٹ, پھسلن

Forms of slickness

pluralslicknesses

Origin of slickness

From slick + -ness.

Words that rhyme with slickness

Questions about slickness

What does slickness mean?
Slickness means the property of being slick.
What is slickness in Urdu?
Slickness in Urdu is چکناہٹ, پھسلن. See Slickness meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is slickness?
Slickness is a noun.
How do you pronounce slickness?
Slickness is pronounced /ˈslɪknɪs/.
What is the plural of slickness?
The plural of slickness is slicknesses.

Words near slickness in the dictionary

  1. slicking back
  2. slicking down
  3. slicking up
  4. slickings
  5. slickly
  6. slickness
  7. slicknesses
  8. slickrock
  9. slickrocks
  10. slicks
  11. slicks back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slickness (page history and authors); slickness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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