slime
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
Other meanings
Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
Synonyms
- sludge
Related words
- deslime
- Muslime
- reslime
- slimebucket
- slimeface
- slimehead
- slimehole
- slimer
- slimewad
- anode slime
- antislime
- beslime
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "slīm".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “slime” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.