Slick vs. Suave — What's the Difference?

Smooth, glossy, and slippery

Suave is a brand name based in Chicago, Illinois, used by the Unilever company in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada. Targeting discount stores, the brand represents more than 100 products including shampoo, lotions, soaps and deodorant.

Deftly executed; adroit

Courteous and elegant; gracious and sophisticated.

Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive

Charming, confident and elegant.

Superficially attractive or plausible but lacking depth or soundness

Sweet talk.

(Slang) Excellent; wonderful.

Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

A smooth or slippery surface or area.

Having a sophisticated charm;

A floating film of oil.

Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication;

A trail of floating material

An implement used to make a surface slick, especially a chisel used for smoothing and polishing.

(Informal) A magazine, usually of large popular readership, printed on high-quality glossy paper.

A smooth, treadless tire, often used for racing.

(Slang) An unarmed military aircraft, especially a helicopter.

To make smooth, glossy, or oily.

(Informal) To make neat, trim, or tidy

Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

Appearing expensive or sophisticated.

Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.

(often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.

Extraordinarily great or special.

Sleek; smooth.

A covering of liquid, particularly oil.

A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.

Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.

A tool used to make something smooth or even.

A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.

A helicopter.

(printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.

A wide paring chisel used in joinery.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.

To make slick.

Sleek; smooth.

To make sleek or smoth.

A wide paring chisel.

A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.

A slippery smoothness;

A magazine printed on good quality paper

A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water

A trowel used to make a surface slick

Make slick or smooth

Give a smooth and glossy appearance;

Having a smooth, gleaming surface;

Made slick by e.g. ice or grease;

Having only superficial plausibility;

Marked by skill in deception;