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Synonyms 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.
Synonyms:
adhesive, cohesive, glutinous, gummy, sticking, viscid, viscousAntonyms:
free, inadhesive, loose, separablePreposition:
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
Synonyms:
embarrassing, viscous, gummed, mucilaginous, steamy, syrupy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviable, pastelike, awkwardAntonyms:
dry, nonadhesive, easystickyadjective
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, unenviableAntonyms:
dry, nonadhesive, easymuggy, 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, steamyAntonyms:
dry, nonadhesive, easyawkward, 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, steamyAntonyms:
easy, nonadhesive, drystickyadjective
covered with an adhesive material
Synonyms:
embarrassing, viscous, awkward, mucilaginous, steamy, gummy, muggy, gluey, viscid, pasty, glutinous, unenviableAntonyms:
easy, dry, nonadhesive
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#852 | fast | |
#934 | quick | |
#3809 | rapid | |
#5289 | horny | |
#5970 | pantyhose | |
#7237 | randy | |
#8323 | sticker | |
#9246 | sticky | |
#9645 | persistent | |
#10643 | adhesive | |
#14909 | sticking | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#19258 | embarrassing | |
#27357 | cohesive | |
#27419 | cumbersome | |
#27699 | uneasy | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#28877 | aroused | |
#30970 | steaming | |
#32670 | viscous | |
#35414 | steamy | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#41493 | inept | |
#48820 | slimy | |
#49780 | gooey | |
#55158 | gummy | |
#61729 | pasty | |
#64406 | onthe | |
#102507 | gummed | |
#106749 | syrupy | |
#111317 | muggy | |
#116018 | unenviable | |
#119592 | clingy | |
#121797 | ungainly | |
#135252 | glutinous | |
#178788 | mortifying | |
#264062 | viscid | |
#287299 | mucilaginous | |
#291589 | inapt | |
#320960 | gluey |
How to use sticky in a sentence?
Food inflation is a sticky issue for Asia.
It's not necessarily against a system that it collapses, because most systems do collapse in the end. That’s a part of the wheel of life - systems do collapse. So I’m to some extent slightly inclined to forgive capitalism for being about to collapse. I mean there are lots of fine things, lots of love affairs and the like which have come to a sticky end. On the other hand, it is quite an accusation - quite hard for it to live down - that it's going to destroy the entire planet with it.
It puts the grinders in a sticky situation as they will have to buy larger quantities from smaller firms, thereby increasing their risk.
If a human, for example, wanted to climb up a wall the way a gecko does, we ’d need impractically large sticky feet -- and shoes in European size 145 or Walter Federle size 114.
I can’t comment whether it’s commitment, it’s a sticky situation. There’s not much I can say. ... I don’t want to point any fingers. I don’t know who is at fault, All I can say is the player was selected.
Translations for sticky
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- لزجArabic
- klebrigGerman
- adherente, exitoso, adherible, pegajoso, popular, escabroso, predeterminado, peliagudo, bochornosoSpanish
- kleepuvEstonian
- چسبندهPersian
- tahmeaaFinnish
- collantFrench
- greamaitheachIrish
- leanailteachScottish Gaelic
- կպչունArmenian
- ベタベタするJapanese
- lipīgsLatvian
- ngingita, kūpiapiaMāori
- lepkiPolish
- pegajosoPortuguese
- lipiciosRomanian
- ли́пкий, кле́йкийRussian
- چپچپاUrdu
- kleböfikVolapük
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