Viscous \Vis"cous\, a. [L. viscosus. See Viscid.]
Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous
consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a
viscous juice. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
viscous
adj 1: having a relatively high resistance to flow [syn: syrupy]
2: having the properties of glue [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy,
mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "viscous":
adhesive, amylaceous, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, clabbered,
clammy, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clotted,
coagulated, coarse, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated,
concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, corpulent, crammed,
crammed full, crass, crowded, curdled, dense, doughy, fat, firm,
full, full-bodied, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey,
glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gross, grumous, gumbo,
gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hard, heavy, heavyset,
impenetrable, impermeable, inspissated, jam-packed, jammed, jelled,
jellied, jellylike, massive, mucilaginous, nonporous, packed,
pasty, ropy, semifluid, serried, slab, slabby, slimy, slithery,
solid, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, stringy, substantial,
syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick-bodied, thick-growing,
thickened, thickset, three-dimensional, tough, tremelloid,
tremellose, viscid, viscose
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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