Sticky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sticky \Stick"y\, a. [Compar. {Stickier}; superl. {Stickiest}.]
     Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey;
     viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and


           with a sticky stalk.                     --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sticky
       adj 1: having the properties of glue [syn: {gluey}, {glutinous}, {gummy},
               {mucilaginous}, {pasty}, {viscid}, {viscous}]
       2: moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing
          sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same
          time"
       3: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy
          tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: {muggy}, {steamy}]
       4: 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" [syn: {awkward}, {embarrassing}, {unenviable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "sticky":
     adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, awkward, bathed in sweat, bathetic,
     beaded with sweat, beery, boggy, bulldogged, bulldoggish,
     bulldoggy, bullheaded, clabbered, clammy, clingy, close, clotted,
     cloying, coagulated, curdled, damp, dampish, dank, delicate, dewy,
     diaphoretic, difficult, discomforting, doughy, drenched with sweat,
     embarrassing, fenny, formidable, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy,
     gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous,
     gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, hairy, heavy,
     humid, in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knotty,
     laborious, marshy, maudlin, mawkish, moist, mucilaginous, mucky,
     muggy, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obstinate,
     operose, oppressive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pasty,
     persistent, perspiring, perspiry, rainy, romantic, ropy, roric,
     roriferous, rough, rugged, sappy, self-adhesive, sensitive,
     sentimental, sentimentalized, slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy,
     slushy, soft, soggy, soppy, starchy, stickable, stifling, stodgy,
     strenuous, stringy, stubborn, stuffy, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific,
     suffocating, sultry, swampy, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, syrupy,
     tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, ticklish,
     tough, tremelloid, tremellose, tricky, uncomfortable, undried,
     viscid, viscose, viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wettish, wilted