sticky

Speech parts

1. sticky - Noun

2. sticky - Adjective

3. sticky - Verb

5. sticky - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

muggy close awkward viscous embarrassing pasty sultry glutinous gummy steamy mucilaginous unenviable viscid gluey tropic

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Antonyms

elementary simple DRY easy safe smooth

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Phrases with the word

sticky fingers sticky situation sticky substance sticky geranium sticky platelet syndrome have sticky fingers

Examples

The money pigs of capitalist democracy... Money has made slaves of us... Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood. Joseph Goebbels

The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things. E. E. Cummings

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Fran Lebowitz

I was very conscience that if you put even your toe on this very sticky piece of paper, then you would be caught on it. Julia Gillard

All that glitters is not gold, and all that is sticky is not tar. Lithuanian Proverb

Not all that glitters is gold; not all that is sticky is tar. Lithuanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

stickweed stickwoman stickwork sticky alder sticky aster sticky bead argument