unctuous
Meaning of unctuous
- (of a liquid or substance) Oily or greasy.
- (of a wine, coffee, sauce, gravy etc.) Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.
- (by extension, of a person) Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.
Information about unctuous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of unctuous
unc-tu-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- unctuous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
unctuous synonyms
Meaning buttery:
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy
Meaning :
saponaceous, slimy, savorous, creepy, effusive, groveling, sycophantic
Words that rhyme with unctuous
conspicuous, imperspicuous, inconspicuous, innocuous, intertranspicuous, nocuous, nonpromiscuous, nonvacuous, pascuous, perspicuous, proficuous, promiscuous, semiconspicuous, semiperspicuous, transpicuous, unconspicuous, uninnocuous, unperspicuous, unpromiscuous, unvacuous, vacuous, arduous, assiduous, biduous, ceduous, deciduous, dividuous, fastiduous, indeciduous, individuous, nondeciduous, occiduous, predeciduous, residuous, superarduous, unarduous, unassiduous, viduous, ambiguous, contiguous, discontiguous, exiguous, incontiguous, irriguous, nonambiguous, noncontiguous, subcontiguous, unambiguous, uncontiguous, xiphuous