Synonyms for sticky
ˈstɪk istick·y

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1. sticky

   Adhesive is the scientific, sticking or sticky the popular word. That which is adhesive tends to join itself to the surface of any other body with which it is placed in contact; cohesive expresses the tendency of particles of the same substance to hold together. Polished plate glass is not adhesive, but such plates packed together are intensely cohesive. An adhesive plaster is in popular language a sticking-plaster. Sticky expresses a more limited, and generally annoying, degree of the same quality. Glutinous, gummy, viscid, and viscous are applied to fluid or semi-fluid substances, as pitch or tar.

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, cohesive, glutinous, gummy, sticking, viscid, viscous

   Antonyms:
   free, inadhesive, loose, separable

   Preposition:
   The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.

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1. gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscousadjective

   having the sticky properties of an adhesive

   Synonyms:
   embarrassing, viscous, gummed, mucilaginous, steamy, syrupy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable, pastelike, awkward

   Antonyms:
   dry, nonadhesive, easy

2. stickyadjective

   moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body

   "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

   Synonyms:
   embarrassing, viscous, awkward, mucilaginous, steamy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable

   Antonyms:
   dry, nonadhesive, easy

3. muggy, steamy, stickyadjective

   hot or warm and humid

   "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"

   Synonyms:
   viscid, unenviable, gummy, horny, ruttish, glutinous, mucilaginous, viscous, muggy, steaming, aroused, pasty, turned on(p), randy, embarrassing, awkward, gluey, steamy

   Antonyms:
   dry, nonadhesive, easy

4. awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviableadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   mortifying, unenviable, ungainly, ill-chosen, clumsy, inapt, glutinous, mucilaginous, viscous, awkward, bunglesome, muggy, cumbersome, viscid, inept, embarrassing, gummy, ill at ease(p), gluey, pasty, uneasy, steamy

   Antonyms:
   easy, nonadhesive, dry

5. stickyadjective

   covered with an adhesive material

   Synonyms:
   embarrassing, viscous, awkward, mucilaginous, steamy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable

   Antonyms:
   easy, dry, nonadhesive

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1. stickyadjective

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, glutinous, viscous, viscid, tenacious, gluey

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1. stickyadjective

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous, clammy, tenacious

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1. List of paraphrases for "sticky":

   clingy, adhesive, viscous, self-adhesive, slimy, gooey, tacky, pantyhose, persistent, quick, sticker, onthe, fast, rapid, gummy

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1. List of known nicknames for "Sticky":

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1. Nicolas Clavel in 2007:

   We're looking for sticky money - we don't want too much hot money from funds of hedge funds.

2. Justin Danhof:

   They all had contracts, right? It can get very messy and very sticky because when you see, like, this person's going to get a $9 million payout, but this [other] person isn't going to get anything, that creates a lot of discrepancies.

3. Famer Jerry Rice:

   I know this might be a little illegal, guys, but you put a little spray, a little stickum on the them, to make sure that texture is a little sticky.

4. Sam Alberti:

   She did suffer from quite severe gum disease that led to a lot of her teeth coming out, and we think being fed sticky sweets by children for 20 years probably didn't help.

5. Ghislaine Maxwell:

   Jenna, maxwell suggested that Virginia meet [Epstein] to apply for the job. Virginia was skeptical, pointing out that she didn’t have the proper training. But Maxwell assured her that she could learn on the job, noting that it looked as if Virginia was serious about her vocation—based on all the sticky notes she could see poking out of the anatomy book in her hands. She gave Virginia her address and phone number. ‘Why don’t you come by after work?’ Maxwell left, with a cheery, almost motherly goodbye.