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Definition: Glutinous |
GlutinousAdjective1. Having the properties of glue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glutinous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Glutinous \Glu"ti*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression glutinosus, from gluten glue: compare to the French expression glutineux. See Gluten.]. (references) |
Synonyms: GlutinousSynonyms: gluey (adj), gummy (adj), mucilaginous (adj), pasty (adj), sticky (adj), viscid (adj), viscous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Semiliquidity | Gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby; lentous, pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous; gummy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glutinous |
| English words defined with "glutinous": Bandoline ♦ clammy locust, Cloom ♦ Dauby ♦ Emplastic ♦ gelatin, gelatine, Glutinative, Guttatrap ♦ Inviscate ♦ Maiden plum, mistletoe ♦ Old World mistletoe ♦ poster color, poster colour, poster paint ♦ Robinia viscosa, ropey, Ropily, ropy ♦ size, sizing, Sizy, stevia, stringy ♦ tacky, tempera, thready ♦ Viscum album ♦ Water color ♦ Zymome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glutinous": DRIER OPERATOR VI, DRIER-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ E485 ♦ glue-drier operator ♦ laborer, glue drying ♦ pearl-glue drier ♦ SPREADING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ viscid egg. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glutinous": Mesogloea. (references) |
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Economic History | Taiwan | Currently, rice imports are banned, with the exception of glutinous rice and broken rice. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glutinous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glutinous" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glutinous rice | 12 |
glutinous recipe rice | 4 |
glutinous | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glutinous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si me zam, ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous). (various references) | |
Arabic | لزق, لزج (adherent, adhesive, clingy, glairy, gluey, gummy, ropy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, tough, viscid, viscous), غروي (gluey, slimy), دابق, دبق (adhesive, clingy, fatty, gelation, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 糯. (various references) | |
Czech | lepkavý (sticky), klihovitý. (various references) | |
Danish | glutinøs, limagtig, klæbende. (various references) | |
Dutch | glutinosus, lijmerig, kleverig (sticky). (various references) | |
French | glutineux. (various references) | |
German | klebrig (sticky, stringy, gluey, ropy, tacky), zäh (tough, tenacious, stringy, tenaciously). (various references) | |
Greek | κολλώδησ (adhesive, gluey, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, tacky, viscid, viscous), κολλώδης (adhesive, gummy, sticky), γλοιώδης (gooey, sleek, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדבק (catching, catchy, infectious), דביק (adhesive, gluey, pasty, sticky, viscous), דבקי (adhesive, sticky, viscid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragadós (tacky, adhesive, gummy, viscous), nyálkás (mucilaginous, mucous, ropy, slimy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | melekat (adhere, cling), lecah. (various references) | |
Italian | glutinoso (adhesion, adhesive, clammily, ropy, sticky). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 餅米 (glutinous rice), 粘つく (to be glutinous, to be sticky), 粘付く (to be glutinous, to be sticky). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねばつく (to be glutinous, to be sticky), もちごめ (glutinous rice). (various references) | |
Manx | gleiyaneagh, gleiyagh (adhesive, gluey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utinousglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glutinoso (gluey). (various references) | |
Romanian | viscos (adhesive, Cloggy, gluey, viscid, viscous), lipicios (adhesive, agglutinative, gluey, gummy, limy, mucous, slimy, sticky, tacky, unctuous, viscous), cleios (adhesive, Cloggy, gluey, gummy, limy, pasty, slack-baked, sticky, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
Russian | клейкий (clammy, gluey, gummy, viscous). (various references) | |
Scottish | ronnach (slimy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lepljiv (adherent, adhesive, agglutinative, clammy, cloggy, gluey, gummy, sticking, sticky, tacky, treacly). (various references) | |
Spanish | glutinoso. (various references) | |
Swedish | glutinös, klibbig (gluey, sticky, tacky). (various references) | |
Thai | เหนียว (gluey, sticky, tacky, tenacious, thick). (various references) | |
Turkish | glüten gibi, yapışkan (adherent, adhesive, agglutinate, clamant, clammy, clinging, clingy, cohesive, gluey, greasy, gummy, like a limpet, mucilaginous, ropy, sticking, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), yapış yapış (gluey, gummy, ropy, sticky, tacky, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | клейкий (adherent, adhesive, agglutinative, clammy, gluey, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), в'язкий (adherent, clammy, ropy, smeary, tough). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dính như keo gạo nếp, dính (adhesive, limy, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glutinous": glutinously. (additional references) | |
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"Glutinous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glutenous, gluteous, glutinosa, glutinouse, glution, glutionous, glutious, glutonous, gluttunous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "glutinous" (pronounced 'Glu"ti*nous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Absonous, Acrogenous, Acuminous, Adenous, Adipogenous, AEruginous, Agynous, Alburnous, Altisonous, Aluminous, Ambaginous, Ambigenous, Amnigenous, Amphigenous, Amphigonous, Anachronous, Anisostemonous, Annotinous, Anodynous, Antherogenous, Asparaginous, asynchronous, Athermanous, Bimanous, Binominous, Binotonous, Binous, Bituminous, Blennogenous, Bombycinous, Calcigenous, Caliginous, Caprigenous, Cartilaginous, Cerasinous, Ceruminous, Chitinous, Chondrigenous, Chromatogenous, Collagenous, Concinnous, Consonous, Conterminous, Coralligenous, Coterminous, Covenous, Criminous, Cymophanous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: tousling. | |
-2 letters: lousing, louting, lusting, lutings, ousting, outguns, outings, outsing, outsung, tiglons, tousing. | |
-3 letters: glints, glouts, gluons, guilts, ingots, insoul, insult, losing, lungis, luting, outgun, outing, outsin, sluing, soling, stingo, sunlit, tiglon, tigons, toling, tonsil, unguis. | |
-4 letters: gilts, glint, glost, glout, gluon, gluts, gouts, guilt, gusto, iglus, ingot, lingo, lings, linos, lints, lions, loins. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: outsulking. | |
+2 letters: glutinously, outblushing, outhustling, outmuscling. | |
+3 letters: contiguously, fulgurations, outbuildings. | |
+4 letters: postinaugural, unrighteously. | |
+5 letters: superovulating. | |
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