Slippery
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- perilous and slippery
- perilous and unstable
- precarious and slippery
- precarious and unstable
- treacherous and slippery
- treacherous and unstable
- tricky and slippery
- tricky and unstable
- unsteady and slippery
- unsteady and unstable
- insecure and slippery
- insecure and unstable
- lubricious and slippery
- lubricious and unstable
Both words in one sentence
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Soil liquefaction, a rare phenomenon associated with earthquakes, can cause water-saturated sandy ground to temporarily turn so slippery and unstable that it becomes too weak to support buildings' foundations.
Source: Quicksand Sucks -
Rorschach from Watchmen is clearly mentally unstable even before the event that causes him to slide off of the slippery slope.
Source: Sanity Slippage
Cite this Source
Unstable and Slippery. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/slippery/unstable
Slippery & Unstable. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/slippery/unstable>.
Unstable or Slippery. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/slippery/unstable.
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