505 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ʌnktjˈuːuːz], [ ʌnktjˈuːuːz], [ ʌ_n_k_t_j_ˈuː_uː_z]

Similar words for unctuous:

• adipose (adjective)
• bland (adjective)
• complimentary (adjective)
• dishonest (adjective)
• fat (adjective)
• fatty (adjective)
• fulsome (adjective)
• goody-goody (adjective)
• gracious (adjective)
• greasy (adjective)
• holier-than-thou (adjective)
• hypocritical (adjective)
• impious (adjective)
• ingratiating (adjective)
• insinuating (adjective)
• obsequious (adjective)
• oily (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• persuasive (adjective)
• sanctimonious (adjective)
• servile (adjective)
• slick (adjective)
• slippery (adjective)
• suave (adjective)
• sugary (adjective)
• ingratiating (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "unctuous" in context?

Synonyms for Unctuous:

• adj.

  • adipose (adjective)
  • more adipocerous,
  • most adipocerous.
  • bland (adjective)
  • urbane,
  • un emotional,
  • good natured,
  • un-emotional,
  • pleasant,
  • goodnatured.
  • complimentary (adjective)
  • more encomiastic,
  • honeyed,
  • more approbative,
  • more sycophantic,
  • more fairspoken,
  • most fair spoken,
  • with high praise,
  • most approving,
  • most fairspoken,
  • more fair-spoken,
  • most sycophantic,
  • more adulatory,
  • most panegyrical,
  • more honoring,
  • most encomiastic,
  • more approving,
  • more panegyrical,
  • more well-wishing,
  • fair spoken,
  • most approbative,
  • more fair spoken,
  • more eulogistic,
  • most honoring,
  • more wellwishing,
  • most wellwishing,
  • most plauditory,
  • fawning,
  • wellwishing,
  • most encomiastical,
  • most eulogistic,
  • most praiseful,
  • more encomiastical,
  • more celebrating,
  • with highest recommendation,
  • most fair-spoken,
  • more praiseful,
  • most celebrating,
  • well wishing,
  • most well wishing,
  • fair-spoken,
  • more plauditory,
  • most well-wishing,
  • most adulatory,
  • more well wishing,
  • fairspoken.
  • dishonest (adjective)
  • perfidious,
  • Double dealing,
  • mendacious.
  • fat (adjective)
  • more fatlike,
  • suetier,
  • fatter,
  • suetiest,
  • most fatlike.
  • fatty (adjective)
  • lardiest,
  • most blubbery,
  • more blubbery,
  • most lardaceous,
  • lardier,
  • more lardaceous.
  • fulsome (adjective)
  • insincere,
  • mealymouthed.
  • goody-goody (adjective)
  • prudish.
  • gracious (adjective)
  • more bonhomous,
  • wellmannered,
  • big hearted,
  • more good hearted,
  • most good hearted,
  • well mannered,
  • good hearted,
  • most bonhomous,
  • most good-hearted,
  • more good-hearted.
  • greasy (adjective)
  • most pomaded,
  • most anointed,
  • most swabbed,
  • most salved,
  • more daubed,
  • more pomaded,
  • more salved,
  • most lubricated,
  • most daubed,
  • more anointed,
  • more swabbed,
  • most smeared,
  • pomaded,
  • more lubricated,
  • more smeared.
  • holier-than-thou (adjective)
  • most high hat,
  • simon pure,
  • most high-hat,
  • high-hat,
  • most simon-pure,
  • highhat,
  • holier than thou,
  • more high hat,
  • simonpure,
  • more simon pure,
  • more high-hat,
  • most simonpure,
  • more highhat,
  • most simon pure,
  • more simonpure,
  • pietistic,
  • more simon-pure,
  • high hat,
  • most highhat.
  • hypocritical (adjective)
  • jiviest,
  • more deluding,
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • most dissembling,
  • more dissembling,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • hypo-critical,
  • most feigning,
  • more feigning,
  • left handed,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • snide,
  • un reliable,
  • most deluding,
  • most caviling,
  • hypo critical,
  • lefthanded,
  • more caviling,
  • feigning,
  • un-natural,
  • smooth spoken,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • smooth tongued,
  • more moralistic,
  • smoothspoken,
  • jivier,
  • un-reliable,
  • most moralistic,
  • smoothtongued.
  • impious (adjective)
  • unholy,
  • undutiful,
  • recusant,
  • un-sanctified,
  • unrighteous,
  • godless,
  • un-hallowed,
  • unregenerate,
  • irreverent,
  • un-regenerate,
  • unsanctified,
  • desecrative.
  • ingratiating (adjective)
  • smug.
  • insinuating (adjective)
  • in sinuating,
  • in-sinuating.
  • obsequious (adjective)
  • parasitical,
  • stipendiary,
  • enslaved,
  • Compliable,
  • Obeisant.
  • oily (adjective)
  • saponaceous,
  • Lubricous,
  • Smeary,
  • lubricative,
  • Pinguid,
  • oil-soaked,
  • lubricious.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fulsome,
  • suave,
  • holier-than-thou,
  • eulogistic,
  • obsequious,
  • Lardaceous,
  • sycophantic,
  • Lardy,
  • bonhomous,
  • hypocritical,
  • fat,
  • approbative,
  • persuasive,
  • glace,
  • ingratiatory,
  • well-wishing,
  • moralistic,
  • encomiastic,
  • blubbery,
  • smooth,
  • Insinuatory,
  • sugary,
  • suety,
  • ingratiating,
  • dishonest,
  • fatlike,
  • distingue,
  • gracious,
  • oleaginous,
  • servile,
  • knightly,
  • slippery,
  • goody-goody,
  • fatty,
  • Encomiastical,
  • impious,
  • Adipocerous,
  • Insinuating,
  • Insinuative,
  • streetwise,
  • Plauditory,
  • adipose,
  • oily,
  • good-hearted,
  • Simon-pure,
  • greasy,
  • bland,
  • adulatory,
  • highly favorable,
  • praiseful,
  • jivey,
  • dextrous,
  • smooth-spoken,
  • pharisaical,
  • panegyrical.
  • persuasive (adjective)
  • Inveigling,
  • Convictive,
  • inducing.
  • sanctimonious (adjective)
  • pre achiest,
  • pre achier,
  • pre-achiest,
  • pre-achy,
  • self satisfied,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • pre achy,
  • pre-achier.
  • servile (adjective)
  • eating humble pie,
  • unresisting,
  • more unresisting,
  • most bootlicking,
  • most unresisting,
  • un resisting,
  • un-resisting,
  • more bootlicking.
  • slick (adjective)
  • most streetwise,
  • more dextrous,
  • most dextrous,
  • more streetwise.
  • slippery (adjective)
  • un safe,
  • un steadiest,
  • un steadier,
  • un stable,
  • un safest,
  • un-safest,
  • most glace,
  • un-steadier,
  • un stablest,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-stablest,
  • un steady,
  • un safer,
  • un-stable,
  • like a skating rink,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-safer,
  • more glace,
  • un-safe,
  • like skating rink,
  • un stabler.
  • suave (adjective)
  • more distingue,
  • re fined,
  • soft spoken,
  • softspoken,
  • most distingue,
  • well bred,
  • wellbred.
  • sugary (adjective)
  • more sugarcoated,
  • most sugarcoated.

• n.

  •
  • false,
  • pretentious,
  • forced,
  • studied,
  • disingenuous,
  • hollow.
  •
  • honest,
  • sleek,
  • attitude.
  • ingratiating (noun)
  • affected.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • buttery,
  • smarmy,
  • a battery,
  • soapy,
  • flattering.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • complimentary.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • soft-spoken,
  • subservient,
  • evasive,
  • easy,
  • inunction,
  • ointment,
  • guileful,
  • duplicitous,
  • deceptive,
  • vulpine,
  • cloying,
  • fly,
  • equivocal,
  • plastic,
  • fallacious,
  • fulsomeness,
  • hesitant,
  • silken,
  • silky,
  • cagey,
  • shrewd,
  • vague,
  • artful,
  • sophisticated,
  • smooth-tongued,
  • mushy,
  • laudatory,
  • untruthful,
  • calm,
  • corrupt,
  • boastful,
  • slushy,
  • arse-licking,
  • gushy,
  • Time-serving,
  • arrogant,
  • periphrastic,
  • Toadying,
  • artificial,
  • pietistical,
  • foxy,
  • cringing,
  • fast-talking,
  • groveling,
  • ungenuine,
  • phony,
  • shifty,
  • pawky,
  • formalistic,
  • treacherous,
  • Oleic,
  • creeping,
  • mawkish,
  • aggressive,
  • faithless,
  • left-handed,
  • deferential,
  • pious,
  • no,
  • canny,
  • ready,
  • reluctant,
  • circumlocutory,
  • disarming,
  • Unguentary,
  • acquiescent,
  • fraudulent,
  • counterfeit,
  • maudlin,
  • brown-nosing,
  • soft,
  • slithery,
  • fluid,
  • sloppy,
  • fluent,
  • sweet,
  • waxy,
  • underhand,
  • crooked,
  • soft-soaping,
  • crawling,
  • mucoid,
  • cynical,
  • smooth-talking,
  • calculating,
  • unscrupulous,
  • pharisaic,
  • oiliness,
  • sentimental,
  • heavy,
  • gooey,
  • Canting,
  • arse-kissing,
  • facile,
  • Slobbery,
  • Sycophantish,
  • Overrighteous,
  • wily,
  • indirect,
  • sly,
  • grovelling,
  • unction,
  • submissive,
  • syrupy,
  • ambiguous,
  • wheedling,
  • double-faced,
  • courtly,
  • Unguinous,
  • double,
  • ass-licking,
  • goody,
  • sanctimonious,
  • underhanded,
  • ENG,
  • gushing,
  • unctuousness,
  • sebaceous,
  • superficial,
  • sharp,
  • backhanded,
  • salve,
  • phony-baloney,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • specious,
  • saccharine,
  • mean,
  • fortunate,
  • crafty,
  • Honey-tongued,
  • winning,
  • Hypocritic,
  • Pharisean,
  • tricky,
  • greasiness,
  • menial,
  • slimy,
  • toadyish,
  • sweet-talking,
  • abject,
  • impudent,
  • apple-polishing,
  • agreeable,
  • mealy,
  • base,
  • Fine-spoken,
  • deceitful,
  • eloquent,
  • unguent,
  • gratifying,
  • craven,
  • roundabout,
  • indelicate,
  • boot-licking,
  • self-righteous,
  • vile,
  • shady,
  • hagiographic,
  • dissembling,
  • feigned,
  • smarminess,
  • Blandishing,
  • slick,
  • nonchalant,
  • Pecksniffian,
  • janus-faced,
  • two-timing,
  • ass-kissing,
  • clever,
  • glib,
  • Toad-eating,
  • fake,
  • plausible,
  • jive,
  • Plotting,
  • Unguentous,
  • fertile,
  • sniveling,
  • sanctified,
  • machiavellian,
  • reticent,
  • Cajoling,
  • Deceiving,
  • butyraceous,
  • cunning,
  • Honey-mouthed,
  • slavish,
  • balm,
  • Equivocating,
  • Snivelling,
  • two-faced,
  • pretended,
  • designing,
  • gross,
  • unctuously,
  • rich,
  • truckling,
  • Chrismatory,
  • lip,
  • Chrismal,
  • euphemistic,
  • lying,
  • low,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • Blarneying,
  • affluent,
  • mincing,
  • scheming,
  • Tallowy.

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