Crossword clues for sleek
sleek
- Like a sports car
- With a smooth, gleaming surface
- Well groomed
- Very produced
- Stylishly glossy
- Streamlined, as a design
- Smooth and stylish
- Smooth and aerodynamic
- Like sports cars
- Like otter fur
- Aerodynamically shaped
- Streamlined, like a sports car
- Smooth, shiny
- Smooth as glass
- Smooth and polished
- Smooth & glossy
- Overproduced sound
- Lustrous, as hair
- Like well-groomed artist
- Like well-designed race cars
- Like smooth, glossy hair
- Like polished production
- Like many concept cars
- Like hair in a shampoo ad
- Like Apple's design
- Like a smooth-sailing clipper ship
- Like a panther
- Elegantly trim
- Aerodynamic — well-groomed
- Stylishly polished
- Streamlined, as a sports car
- Smooth and glossy
- Smooth and shiny
- Well-groomed
- Built for speed
- Like an SST
- Aerodynamically designed
- Having nice lines
- Otterlike
- Stylishly streamlined
- Smooth and lustrous
- Glossy
- Like a well-groomed horse
- Polished
- Superficially elegant
- Like a well-fed cat
- Unctuous
- Satiny
- Soigné
- Like a fat cat
- Velvety
- Glossy small vegetable
- Elegant, streamlined
- With sun, vegetable is obviously thriving
- Smooth, glossy
- Finely contoured
- Trim and graceful
- Stylishly smooth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleek \Sleek\ (sl[=e]k), a. [Compar. Sleeker (sl[=e]k"[~e]r); superl. Sleekest.] [OE. slik; akin to Icel. sl[=i]kr, and OE. sliken to glide, slide, G. schleichen, OHG. sl[=i]hhan, D. slik, slijk, mud, slime, and E. slink. Cf. Slick, Slink.]
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Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
--Chaucer.So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.
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Not rough or harsh.
Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.
--Milton.
Sleek \Sleek\, adv. With ease and dexterity. [Low]
Sleek \Sleek\, n.
That which makes smooth; varnish. [R.]
A slick.
Sleek \Sleek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeked;p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeking.] To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
Sleeking her soft alluring locks.
--Milton.
Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, variant of Middle English slike (see slick (adj.)). Originally of healthy-looking animal hair; applied to persons 1630s, with sense of "plump and smooth-skinned." Figurative meaning "slick, fawning, flattering" is from 1590s.
"make sleek," mid-15c., a variant of slick (v.). Related: Sleeked; sleeking.
Wiktionary
1 Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy. 2 Not rough or harsh. adv. (context dated English) With ease and dexterity. n. That which makes smooth; varnish. v
To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive.
WordNet
adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: glossy, satiny, silken, silky, silklike, slick]
well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed; "sleek figures in expensive clothes"
v. make slick or smooth [syn: slick]
Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the sleek is a magical beast.
Sleek magazine for art and fashion, focuses on art and fashion, an independent quarterly. Focusing on a curated investigation of contemporary art and fashion. Published in Berlin and distributed internationally, Sleek is printed in English. Each issue contains a mono thematic dossier centred on a topic comprising two opposite concepts and selected as a playful approach to tackling the intricacy of contemporaneous culture.
Considering the visual as the most important language of our times, and art and fashion as its most influential disciplines, sleek provides a platform for both while seeking to highlight their aesthetic and intellectual interrelatedness.
Founded in Hamburg in 2003, the magazine has been published in Berlin since 2005.
Usage examples of "sleek".
Sleek in some lines and blunt in others, it resembled the F-42, an experimental Air Force fighter unmatched in stealth, maneuverability, and weapons, with a thrust that well exceeded its weight, and aeroelasticity that allowed its wings to alter according to commands from its onboard mesh.
Lilliputian ropes restraining a sleek, mechanical Gulliver, Ake hit the forward thrusters and the ship shot backwards out of the slot that had held it like a sword being pulled from a scabbard.
He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.
In the end Axel wiped his hands on his apron and poured a cup of ale, sending it over with the boy, who peered at Julian hopefully from behind a curtain of sleek brown hair.
More than that, she had no trouble in the love department, sleek breasty lure with that long straight shiny black hair of hers.
He lay watching Buglet as they let the sun warm them, the torn clothing molded to her body, the wet hair black and sleek against her hollowed face.
Akagi, the sleek aircraft carrier flagship of Admiral Nagumo, headed westward through Kudako Strait, cruising easily at 16 knots on her course toward Bungo Channel and the broad Pacific.
Like all the Mon Calamari ships, this one was unique, an artwork, sleek and flowing, and ultimately deadly.
Alone and cloakless, dark-gowned, tall and sleek of figure, in a word, dangerous.
Her sleek brown hair was covered by an ermine shako tied with wide grosgrain ribbons dyed to match the coquelicot velvet of her erminelined driving pelisse.
Sophonax was as sleek and healthy and beautiful as Farder Coram was ravaged and weak.
But his head turned again to Bran, as if by compulsion, back to the pale vulnerable figure standing there holding the sword Eirias, his white hair sleek in the mist and the tawny eyes creased a little against the light.
He eased up off the floor and padded quietly over to the sleek datacom embedded in the wall.
Machines swarmed through the air, ran in sleek low-slung deadliness over the earth.
Arabian to the heftiest drafter, and also camels and their cousins, the sleek racing dromedaries.