What are some opposite words for sticky?
Antonyms for sticky
ˈstɪk istick·y
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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free, inadhesive, loose, separableSynonyms:
adhesive, cohesive, glutinous, gummy, sticking, viscid, viscousPreposition:
The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.
Princeton's WordNet
gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscousadjective
having the sticky properties of an adhesive
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dry, nonadhesive, easySynonyms:
embarrassing, viscous, gummed, mucilaginous, steamy, syrupy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable, pastelike, awkwardstickyadjective
moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
"felt sticky and chilly at the same time"
Antonyms:
dry, nonadhesive, easySynonyms:
embarrassing, viscous, awkward, mucilaginous, steamy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviablemuggy, steamy, stickyadjective
hot or warm and humid
"muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"
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dry, nonadhesive, easySynonyms:
viscid, unenviable, gummy, horny, ruttish, glutinous, mucilaginous, viscous, muggy, steaming, aroused, pasty, turned on(p), randy, embarrassing, awkward, gluey, steamyawkward, 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"
Antonyms:
easy, nonadhesive, drySynonyms:
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, steamystickyadjective
covered with an adhesive material
Antonyms:
easy, dry, nonadhesiveSynonyms:
embarrassing, viscous, awkward, mucilaginous, steamy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable
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How to use sticky in a sentence?
It gives us a great lever in terms of our proposition differentiation at the point of sale ... which will help us accelerate our acquisition journey of good quality, sticky customers.
It's difficult to build a social media company. Even after Twitter generated hundreds of millions of users, there were doubts about the company, you can throw money at these projects, but it's hard to build a sticky platform.
The economy continues to show strength, and interest rates are repricing to account for the stronger than expected growth, tight labor market and the threat of sticky inflation.
Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb:
The sad thing is, 98 percent is concluded, i don't know how sticky it is.
It puts the grinders in a sticky situation as they will have to buy larger quantities from smaller firms, thereby increasing their risk.
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