adhesive

Speech parts

1. adhesive - Noun

2. adhesive - Adjective

Meaning

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tenacious adhesive material bulldog putty bramble cretaceous lute paster lime binder gypsum rosin ligation mastic sealer

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Antonyms

nonadhesive airy free block combat separated

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Hypernyms

material stuff

Hyponyms

lime binder cement paste birdlime library paste

Phrases with the word

adhesive bonding adhesive joint adhesive patch adhesive band self-adhesive tape animal protein adhesive

Examples

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. Isaac Asimov

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell

In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive. Jon Krakauer

But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. Randall Munroe

I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you. Xhosa Proverb

Close letter words and terms

adhesionless adhesionolysis adhesiotomy adhesive agent adhesive band adhesive bandage