- Types Of Speech
- You can use sly as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Sly
- A 1 syllables adjective satellite and 3 letters with the letters l, s, and y, 3 consonants, 0 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter l. Sly starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, sl, and the ending characters are y, ly, ..
- Definition
- Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Sly is set as a kindergarten word that starts with s, ends with y, 1 syllables, 0 vowels and 3 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is sly a scrabble word? A 6 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Sly in Pig Latin is said as "yslay or yslway".
- Unigram
- s | l | y
- Bigram
- sl | ly
- Trigram
- sly
- Word Gram
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
| Abstruse | difficult to penetrate incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge "the professor''s lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them" "a deep metaphysical theory" "some recondite problem in historiography" |
| Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Acute Accent | |
| Adroit | quick or skillful or adept in action or thought "an exceptionally adroit pianist" "an adroit technician" "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers" "an adroit negotiator" |
| Adust | burned brown by the sun "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott |
| Ague | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Alluring | |
| Ambidextrous | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill "a double-dealing double agent" "a double-faced infernal traitor and |
| Ambuscade | the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise |
View all cognitive synonyms for Sly
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sly | marked by skill in deception "cunning men often pass for wise" "deep political machinations" "a foxy scheme" "a slick evasive answer" "sly as a fox" "tricky Dik" "a wily old attorney" |
View English words with the unique letters used in sly. Words With The Letters Lsy
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Roslyn | No | Yes |
| Jesslyn | No | No |
| Wesly | Yes | No |
| Slyvia | Yes | Yes |
| Leslye | Yes | Yes |
View All Names For Sly
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artful | marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sally (5 letters) | 8 +2 | 9 +3 | sally | ||
| Islay (5 letters) | 8 +2 | 8 +2 | ailsy | ||
| Sibyl (5 letters) | 10 +4 | 11 +5 | sibyl | ||
| Lysis (5 letters) | 8 +2 | 8 +2 | lysis | ||
| Lyssa (5 letters) | 8 +2 | 8 +2 | alssy | ||
| Slay (4 letters) | 7 +1 | 7 +1 | slay | ||
| Scaly (5 letters) | 10 +4 | 11 +5 | scaly | ||
| Sly (3 letters) | 6 | 6 | sly | ||
| Silky (5 letters) | 12 +6 | 12 +6 | silky | ||
| Sadly (5 letters) | 9 +3 | 9 +3 | sadly | ||
| Shyly (5 letters) | 14 +8 | 12 +6 | shyly | ||
| Slyly (5 letters) | 11 +5 | 11 +5 | slyly | ||
| Asyla (5 letters) | 8 +2 | 8 +2 | asyla | ||
| Shyla (5 letters) | 11 +5 | 10 +4 | shyla |
Sly Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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