Sticky \Stick"y\, a. [Compar. Stickier; superl. Stickiest.]
Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey;
viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
[1913 Webster]
Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and
with a sticky stalk. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sticky
adj 1: having the properties of glue [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy,
mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous]
2: moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing
sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same
time"
3: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy
tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: muggy, steamy]
4: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment;
"awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the
discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a
sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting
to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the
campaign" [syn: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "sticky":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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