Slime Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Pronunciation
  • 1.2 Noun
    • 1.2.1 Derived terms
    • 1.2.2 Synonyms
    • 1.2.3 Translations
  • 1.3 Verb
  • 1.4 Anagrams

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: slīm, IPA: /slaɪm/, SAMPA: /slaIm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

slime (plural slimes)

1. 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.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
3. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:

     th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].

Derived terms

• slime mold

Synonyms

• (any substance of a dirty nature): sludge

Verb

to slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)

1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.

Anagrams

• limes
• miles, Miles
• smile

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