sleekening
Rendering more streamlined
Sleekening is the process of making something sleek—smooth, glossy, or streamlined.
Hair products promise sleekening effects; designers talk about sleekening a car's profile.
The word appears most often as a present participle: The stylist spent an hour sleekening her frizzy hair.
Less common than smoothing or streamlining, it emphasizes achieving a polished, refined appearance.
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- minimizingReducing to smallest extent
- simplifyingMaking less complex
- modernizingMaking something current
- polishingSmoothing by friction
refining · updating · aerodynamic · contour · profile · silhouette · curves · tapering
Reducing irregularities systematically
- polishingSmoothing by friction
- buffingFriction-based shine work
- finishingBringing to completion
- glossingAdding shine or smoothing
refining · coating · sealing · waxing · lacquering · varnishing · sanding · burnishing
Reducing irregularities systematically
- straighteningMaking something not crooked
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- glossingAdding shine or smoothing
- serumBlood's watery portion
keratin · shine · silkening · defrizzing · polishing · leave-in · taming · flyaways
streamlining
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- minimizingReducing to smallest extent
- simplifyingMaking less complex
- modernizingMaking something current
polishing · refining · updating · aerodynamic · contour · profile · silhouette · curves · tapering · flush
smoothing
Reducing irregularities systematically
glossing · refining · coating · sealing · waxing · lacquering · varnishing · sanding · burnishing · lubricating
smoothing
Reducing irregularities systematically
- straighteningMaking something not crooked
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- glossingAdding shine or smoothing
serum · keratin · shine · silkening · defrizzing · polishing · leave-in · taming · flyaways · finishing
sleekeningroughening
Making less smooth
coarsening · texturizing · matting · abrading · scuffing
sleekeningdisheveling
Making untidy or disordered
mussing · roughening · coarsening · tousling · rumpling