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What is the adjective for grease?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs grease and greaseproof which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

greasy
  1. Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.
  2. Containing a lot of grease or fat.
  3. (slang) shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical.
  4. (obsolete) fat, bulky
  5. (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent
  6. (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Its heavy arms clicked and whirred, greasy pistons pumping.”
      “Follow a greasy meal with a cup of hot yerba mate or green tea to help digestion.”
      “I would almost have gotten clean away if I hadn't slipped on the greasy ground and come crashing down.”
greaseless
  1. Without fats or oils.
  2. Not feeling greasy to the touch; not leaving a non-water-soluble residue.
  3. Not requiring separate lubricant.
  4. Examples:
    1. “To absorb excess oil, sprinkle a bit of talc on a brush and work it through the hair from scalp to ends to produce a fresh, greaseless finish.”
      “The cooking for all its tentative seasoning is clean, greaseless and founded on adequate ingredients.”
      “Crunchy and greaseless calamari are dunked in a lime-miso sauce that could be used throughout the meal.”
greaselike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of grease.
greaseable
  1. That can be greased.
greaseproof
greasier
  1. comparative form of greasy: more greasy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their regular food is kebab roll, shwarma or biryani, as they are forever short of funds and settle for the cheaper, greasier fast food variety.”
      “All it takes is one reader pointing out something that was earlier, or later, or greasier, and you're publishing a correction.”
      “I used the lipstick because it has a sheer texture and is a little greasier than cream blush, so it looks nice and dewy.”
greasiest
  1. superlative form of greasy: most greasy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There's nothing redeeming in softball, a pastime that seems to attract the greasiest, worst dressed residents of local areas to neighbourhood parks.”
      “Fried broccoli rabe is locked inside some of the heaviest, greasiest batter I've ever tasted.”
      “With the fog flirting with the Kingston Park environs all the while, the freezing conditions had dewtipped grass causing the greasiest of balls.”
greased
greasing
greaseproofed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of greaseproof
greaseproofing
  1. present participle of greaseproof
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