grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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(noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
(verb) lubricate with grease | - |
greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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greased | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: lubricated |
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greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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greaseproof | (adjective) resistant to penetration by grease or oil or wax | - |
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greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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greasily | (adverb) in a greasy manner | - |
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greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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(adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
great | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child |
(adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, majuscule |
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect | - |
(adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: outstanding |
(adjective) relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind | - |
(noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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greatest | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: sterling, superlative |
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greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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greatly | (adverb) to an extraordinary extent or degree | - |
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greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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