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sticky
adjective
1 sticky
Having the sticky properties of an adhesive.
synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous.
Roget 46:
cohesive,
adhesive,
adhering,
cohering
etc.
v.;
tenacious,
tough;
sticky
etc.
352.
united,
unseparated,
unsessile†,
inseparable,
inextricable,
infrangible†;
compact
etc.
(dense)
321.
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Roget 352:
semifluid,
semiliquid;
tremellose†;
half melted,
half frozen;
milky,
muddy
etc.
n.;
lacteal,
lactean†,
lacteous†,
lactescent†,
lactiferous†;
emulsive,
curdled,
thick,
succulent,
uliginous†.
gelatinous,
albuminous,
mucilaginous,
glutinous;
glutenous,
gelatin,
mastic,
amylaceous†,
ropy,
clammy,
clotted;
viscid,
viscous;
sticky,
tacky,
gooey;
slab,
slabby†;
lentous†,
pituitous†;
mucid†,
muculent†,
mucous;
gummy.
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Polish: kleisty, klejący, klejki, lepki, klejowaty, czepny
2 sticky
Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body.
3 sticky
Hot or warm and humid:
— Sticky weather.
synonyms: muggy, steamy.
Polish: parny
4 sticky
5 sticky
Covered with an adhesive material.
Moby thesaurus: adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, awkward, bathed in sweat, bathetic, beaded with sweat, beery, boggy, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, clabbered, clammy, clingy, close, clotted, cloying, coagulated, curdled, damp, dampish, dank, delicate, dewy, diaphoretic, difficult, discomforting, doughy, drenched with sweat, embarrassing, fenny, formidable, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, hairy, heavy, humid, in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knotty, laborious, marshy, maudlin, mawkish, moist, mucilaginous, mucky, muggy, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obstinate, operose, oppressive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pasty, persistent, perspiring, perspiry, rainy, romantic, ropy, roric, roriferous, rough, rugged, sappy, self-adhesive, sensitive, sentimental, sentimentalized, slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy, slushy, soft, soggy, soppy, starchy, stickable, stifling, stodgy, strenuous, stringy, stubborn, stuffy, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, swampy, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, ticklish, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, tricky, uncomfortable, undried, viscid, viscose, viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wettish, wilted ... show more.
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