Antonyms for glutinous
ˈglut n əsgluti·nous

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1. glutinous

   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.

   Antonyms:
   free, inadhesive, loose, separable

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive

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

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