oil

The word “oil” has 1 syllable: oil

It's pronounced as /ɔɪl/


What is synonym and antonym for oil?

In the thesaurus, “oil” has 41 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for oil along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for oil

Antonyms for oil

  • coarsen
  • dehydrate
  • dry
  • parch
  • rough
  • roughen
  • sear

Meanings of oil

  • noun
    1. Liquid fat.
    2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
    3. An oil painting.
    4. Oil paint.
  • verb
    1. To lubricate with oil.
    2. To grease with oil for cooking.

Example Sentences

  • She added some oil to the frying pan.
  • The car needs an oil change soon.
  • He painted the portrait using oil colors.
  • There was a spill of oil on the kitchen floor.
  • They discovered a large oil reserve underground.

On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to oil, such as: acrylic, anoint, aquarelle, bathe, canvas, canvass, coarsen.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

cajole

  • adulate
  • apple-polish
  • argue into
  • banter
  • beg
  • beguile
  • beseech
  • blandish
  • blarney
  • bootlick
  • brown-nose
  • butter up
  • charm
  • coax
  • con
  • cozen
  • deceive
  • delude
  • dupe
  • entice
  • entrap
  • finagle
  • flatter
  • get around
  • get next to
  • hand a line
  • importune
  • induce
  • influence
  • inveigle
  • jolly
  • juggle
  • lay it on thick
  • lure
  • make up to
  • maneuver
  • massage
  • mislead
  • oil
  • overpraise
  • palaver
  • play up to
  • push
  • rub the right way
  • seduce
  • snow
  • soap
  • soft-soap
  • soften
  • spread it on
  • stroke
  • suck up to
  • sweet-talk
  • sweeten up
  • tantalize
  • tempt
  • urge
  • wangle
  • wheedle
  • wile
  • woo
  • work on
  • work over

cajolery

  • a line
  • acclaim
  • acclamation
  • admiration
  • adulation
  • alignment
  • allurement
  • alluring
  • applause
  • appreciation
  • approbation
  • approval
  • arm-twist
  • attraction
  • babble
  • bait
  • baloney
  • blab
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blessing
  • bootlicking
  • bouquet
  • brainwashing
  • buttering up
  • cajolement
  • chatter
  • chitchat
  • clack
  • coaxing
  • cogency
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • commendation
  • comp
  • compliments
  • con
  • conference
  • confirmation
  • congratulations
  • conversation
  • conversion
  • convincing
  • courtesy
  • debate
  • decoy
  • dialogue
  • discussion
  • encomium
  • endorsement
  • enticement
  • entreaty
  • eulogy
  • exaggeration
  • exhortation
  • eyewash
  • fair words
  • fascination
  • favor
  • fawning
  • felicitation
  • flatter
  • flattering
  • flattery
  • flummery
  • force
  • fulsomeness
  • gab
  • gallantry
  • good word
  • goose
  • hard sell
  • hokum
  • homage
  • honey
  • honeyed words
  • honor
  • hook
  • incense
  • inducement
  • inducing
  • influencing
  • ingratiation
  • insincere flattery
  • inveiglement
  • jive
  • kudo
  • laud
  • laudation
  • laurels
  • lobbying
  • lure
  • mousetrap
  • mush
  • nobbling
  • notice
  • obsequiousness
  • oil
  • orchid
  • ovation
  • overpersuasion
  • overpraise
  • palaver
  • panegyric
  • parley
  • pat on the back
  • persuading
  • persuasion
  • persuasiveness
  • plaudits
  • posy
  • potency
  • power
  • praise
  • pressuring
  • pretty speech
  • promise
  • promote
  • prompting
  • puffery
  • pull
  • regard
  • respects
  • sanction
  • seduction
  • sell
  • sentiment
  • smooth talk
  • snare
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • squeeze
  • stroking
  • suasion
  • swaying
  • sweet nothings
  • sweet words
  • sweet-talk
  • sweetener
  • sweetening
  • sycophancy
  • talk
  • tantalizing
  • temptation
  • tempting
  • toadyism
  • trap
  • tribute
  • truckling
  • unctuousness
  • urging
  • veneration
  • warm fuzzy
  • wheedle
  • wheedling
  • winning over
  • working over

daub

  • anoint
  • bedaub
  • befoul
  • begrime
  • bemire
  • besmear
  • besmirch
  • bespray
  • blacken
  • blur
  • caricature
  • cartoon
  • coat
  • collage
  • colly
  • confuse
  • contaminate
  • cover
  • crock
  • dab
  • deface
  • defile
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • diagram
  • dirty
  • disarrange
  • disarray
  • discolor
  • dishevel
  • disorder
  • distain
  • doodle
  • draggle
  • drawing
  • etching
  • finger painting
  • fleck
  • foul
  • gaum
  • grease
  • grime
  • gum
  • hieroglyph
  • hieroglyphic
  • icon
  • ideogram
  • ideograph
  • ikon
  • illustration
  • image
  • jumble
  • lard
  • likeness
  • mess
  • mire
  • montage
  • muck
  • muddle
  • muddy
  • oil
  • paint
  • photograph
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pitch
  • plaster
  • pollute
  • portrait
  • representation
  • resemblance
  • silhouette
  • sketch
  • slap on
  • smear
  • smirch
  • smudge
  • soil
  • spatter
  • speckle
  • splatter
  • spot
  • spread
  • stain
  • sully
  • taint
  • tar
  • variegate
  • varnish
  • view
  • watercolor

paint

  • acrylic
  • bepaint
  • brighten
  • brush
  • camo
  • camouflage
  • catch a likeness
  • characterize
  • checker
  • chroma
  • coat
  • cold cream
  • color
  • coloring
  • compose
  • cosmetic
  • cosmetics
  • cover
  • cover up
  • cream
  • dapple
  • darken
  • daub
  • decorate
  • define
  • delineate
  • demonstrate
  • depict
  • describe
  • design
  • display
  • draft
  • draw
  • dye
  • embrown
  • emulsion
  • enamel
  • exhibit
  • eye shadow
  • figure
  • flat
  • fleck
  • fresco
  • gloss
  • gloss over
  • greasepaint
  • hint
  • illustrate
  • image
  • kohl
  • label
  • latex
  • lighten
  • limn
  • lipstick
  • lotion
  • makeup
  • maquillage
  • marble
  • mascara
  • mottle
  • narrate
  • oil
  • ornament
  • outline
  • overlay
  • pattern
  • picture
  • pigment
  • polychrome
  • portray
  • powder
  • put on coats
  • qualify
  • recite
  • recount
  • redescribe
  • rehearse
  • reimage
  • relate
  • render
  • report
  • represent
  • rouge
  • set out
  • shade
  • show
  • silhouette
  • sketch
  • slap on
  • slather
  • speck
  • speckle
  • stain
  • stipple
  • streak
  • striate
  • stripe
  • suggest
  • sum up
  • summarize
  • swab
  • tell
  • tempera
  • tincture
  • tinge
  • tint
  • touch off
  • touch up
  • trace
  • vanishing cream
  • variegate
  • varnish
  • veneer
  • vignette
  • war paint
  • wash
  • wax

painting

  • abstract design
  • acrylic
  • airbrushing
  • aquarelle
  • art
  • art work
  • bepainting
  • brightening
  • brushing
  • calcimining
  • canvas
  • canvass
  • characterizing
  • checkering
  • cityscape
  • coating
  • coloring
  • composition
  • covering
  • dappling
  • darkening
  • daubing
  • decorating
  • defining
  • delineating
  • demonstrating
  • depicting
  • depiction
  • describing
  • design
  • diptych
  • displaying
  • distemper
  • drafting
  • drawing
  • dyeing
  • embrowning
  • enameling
  • etching
  • exhibiting
  • finger painting
  • flecking
  • fresco
  • gouache
  • hinting
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • landscape
  • lightening
  • likeness
  • limning
  • marbling
  • masterpiece
  • mottling
  • mural
  • narrating
  • oil
  • oil painting
  • outlining
  • panorama
  • pastel
  • patterning
  • picture
  • picturing
  • pigmenting
  • polychroming
  • portrait
  • portrayal
  • portraying
  • qualifying
  • reciting
  • recounting
  • redescribing
  • rehearsing
  • reimaging
  • relating
  • rendering
  • reporting
  • representation
  • representing
  • seascape
  • setting out
  • showing
  • showpiece
  • silhouetting
  • sketch
  • sketching
  • specking
  • speckling
  • splashing
  • staining
  • streaking
  • striating
  • striping
  • suggesting
  • summarizing
  • summing up
  • telling
  • tempera
  • tincturing
  • tingeing
  • tinging
  • tinting
  • touching off
  • tracing
  • triptych
  • variegating
  • varnishing
  • vignetting
  • water color
  • watercolor

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