sleek
adj.smooth, shiny, and looking expensive or well-made. You use this to describe things like fast cars, modern phones, or healthy hair.
adj.having a smooth, glossy surface and a streamlined shape that suggests speed or elegance. Often used to describe industrial design, fashion, or physical appearance.
“The new sports car has a sleek, modern design.”
“The company's latest smartphone features a sleek glass body and a very thin profile.”
“Architects designed the skyscraper with a sleek, aerodynamic exterior to minimize wind resistance while maintaining a striking presence on the city skyline.”
Commonly used both attributively before a noun and predicatively after linking verbs like 'look' or 'feel'.
A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.