Sticky

Definition: Sticky

Sticky

Adjective

1. Having the properties of glue.

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".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sticky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Sticky \Stick"y\, adjective. [Comparative Stickier; superlative Stickiest.]. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Sticky

Coherence

Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky.

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.

Crosswords: Sticky

That icky, sticky stuff is only fit for hefalumps and woozels (Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Larry Clemmons)

Mine are all sticky. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

The city was sticky and cruel (I Drove All Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

'Cos I'm hot, so hot, sticky sweet (Pour Some Sugar On Me; performing artist: Def Leppard)

I'm hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet yeah (Pour Some Sugar On Me; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Sticky, icky, icky, icky (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Six sticky sucker sticks. (references; author: unknown)

Sticky Fingers (1966)

A Sticky Business (1926)

That Nasty Sticky Stuff (1908)

Sticky Moments on Tour with Julian Clary (1990)

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Books

• Kipper's Sticky Paws : Touch and Feel (reference)

• Sticky Situations: 365 Devotions for Kids and Families (reference)

• Sticky Sublime (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Live at the Sticky Wicket [LIVE] (reference)

• Sticky Fingers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Polaroid i-Zone Sticky Pocket Film (3-Pack) (reference)

• Polaroid Webster i-zone Sticky Film Kit Bonus Pack (reference)

• AMERICAN COVER 13800 Sticky Pad Dashboard Organizer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC.

Formosan termite alates, also known as swarmers, captured on a sticky trap used to monitor populations. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Sticky Cinquefoil (Potentilla glandulosa) at Lower Table Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

A merciful man is merciful to his beast : see what can be done in fly time with a couple of pairs of old over-alls and some sticky fly-paper. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Her mouth was sticky, and her nose still dripped a little blood from her fight

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Health

Avoid sticky, sugary foods. (references)

The spleen has to work extra hard to filter out the sticky cells. (references)

Saliva washes away sticky foods that help form plaque and strengthens teeth with minerals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sticky": be sticky ♦ be sticky about doing smth. ♦ become soft and sticky ♦ come to a sticky end ♦ make sticky ♦ sticky analysis ♦ sticky aster ♦ sticky bit ♦ sticky bun ♦ sticky charge ♦ sticky clay ♦ sticky content ♦ sticky end ♦ sticky finger ♦ sticky geranium ♦ sticky label ♦ sticky problem ♦ sticky situation ♦ sticky situations ♦ sticky snow ♦ sticky tape. Additional references.

Beginning with "sticky": sticky-back, sticky-backed, sticky-fingered, sticky-looking, sticky-out, sticky-palmed, sticky-paper, sticky-rubber, sticky-sweet, sticky-tape, sticky-taped, sticky-tipped, sticky-wet.

Ending with "sticky": non-sticky.

Albanian

ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous), me lagështi (humid, moist, sloppy, wet), i pavendosur (dubious, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, purposeless, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsteady). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نيق (dainty, fidgety, finical, finicky, fussy, precise, prissy), ‏لزج (adherent, adhesive, clingy, glairy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, slimy, stringy, tacky, tenacious, tough, viscid, viscous), ‏لصوق, ‏صعب المراس (awkward, churlish, indocile, intractable, problem, ungainly, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏شائك (acarpous, barbed, knotty, prickly, spiked, spiky, spiny, thistly, thorny, touchy, tricky), ‏دبق (adhesive, clingy, fatty, gelation, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кален (feculent, miry, muddy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, tempered, thick), влажен (damp, dank, humid, juicy, madid, moist, plashy, raw, soft, soggy, watery, wet), неотстъпчив (irreconcilable, rock-ribbed, rocky, severe, unaccommodating, unamenable, unyielding), мъчителен (afflictive, agonizing, awkward, cruel, exasperating, excruciating, grievous, grinding, gruelling, harassing, harrowing, heavy, nerve racking, painful, tantalizing, torturous, traumatic, trying, vexatious), лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly), проблематичен (contingent, problematic). (various references)

Chinese 

黏 , 粘粘 , 粘 (paste, to stick), � 粘 (stickiness). (various references)

Czech

lepkavý (adhesive, clammy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, limy, smeary, tacky). (various references)

Danish

klæbrig (of high viscosity). (various references)

Dutch

kleverig (glutinous, pitchlike, pitchy, tacky), plakkerig. (various references)

Esperanto

glueca, algluiĝema. (various references)

Farsi 

چسبناک کردن , چسبناک (Cohesive, Goo, Gooey, Slab, Stick, String, Tacky), چسبنده (Adhesive, Gooey, Gummy, Inherent, Innate, Tenacious), دشوار (Arduous, Difficult, Hard, Inexplicable, Intolerable, Laborious, Onerous, Slippery, Sore, Spiny, Strait, Tough, Uphill). (various references)

Finnish

tahmea (viscid, viscous). (various references)

French

visqueux, poisseux (stringy), gluant. (various references)

German

pappig (gooey), klebrig (adhesive, clammily, gluey, glutinous, glutinously, glutinuos, gooey, gummy, ropily, ropy, stickily, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscous). (various references)

Greek 

κολλώδησ (adhesive, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, tacky, viscid, viscous), κολλώδης (adhesive, gummy), κολλώδες (adhesiveness, of high viscosity, stickiness), κολλητικός (adhesive, contagious, infectious), γλοιώδησ (clammy, mucilaginous, mucous, oozy, slimy, unctuous, viscid), πισσώδης (pitchlike, pitchy, tarry-smelling), πυκνό (of high viscosity), ζυμαροειδές (of high viscosity), ζυμοειδές (of high viscosity), αμυλώδες (of high viscosity, starchy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת� �'�" (adversary, adversative, antagonist, averse, defiant, dissident, enemy, exceptive, opponent, opposed), עוש�" קשים, �"ביק (adhesive, gluey, glutinous, pasty, viscous), �"בקי (adhesive, glutinous, viscid), צמי�'י (adhesive, ropy, viscose), צמי�' (gluey, tire, tyre, viscid, viscous), צמו�'. (various references)

Hungarian

nyúlós (clammy, doughy, glutinous, gooey, pasty, ropy, runny, stiff, stringy, viscid, viscous). (various references)

Indonesian

lengket (adhering), gelintin (concentrated, thick), bergetah (gummy, have sap). (various references)

Italian

viscoso (ropey, ropy, tacky, viscous), appiccicaticcio (clammy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粘っ�"い (persistent, stiff, tenacious), 粘い , ねじ伏せる (contents, joke material, material, must, ought to, persistent, proof, should, to have to do, to hold down, to twist one's arm, topping of nigiri sushi), へぼ医者 (all over, being sticky, bloody fool!, blunder, bungle, chattering, clinging, closely, empty, frivolous, gaffe, gooey, hard, hungry, messy, must, non-stop talking, prattling, quack doctor, shall, should, speaking indiscreetly, squished flat, thickly, to commit a blunder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねばっ�"い (persistent, stiff, tenacious), ねばい, ねちねち (persistent), べたべた (all over, clinging). (various references)

Korean 

끈끈한 (ropy). (various references)

Manx

lhiantagh (adherent, adhesive, attached, clinging, consecutive, perseverant, viscid), greimmagh (clutching, grasping, gripping, snappy), gleiynagh (adhesive, gelatinous, mucilaginous, slimy, viscous). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickystay.(various references)

Portuguese

pegajoso (clammy, clinging, clingy, cloggy, dauby, gluey, gummy, lentous, limy, ropy, slimy, stringy, tacky, viscid, viscous), viscoso (dauby, glairy, gluey, lentous, limy, ropy, semifluid, slimy, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid), espesso (bushy, concentrated, consistent, corpulent, crass, dense, fat, rank, stiff, succulent, thick, thick-set, tufty). (various references)

Romanian

sufocant (airless, choking, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry), strâns pe corp, vâscos (gummy, ropy, slimy), unsuros (fat, fatty, fattyoleous, greasy, oily, sleek, smeary, unctuous), neînduplecat (cast iron, hard bitten, inexorable, inflexible, relentless, rigid, rugged, unyielding), lipicios (adhesive, agglutinative, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, mucous, slimy, tacky, unctuous, viscous), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, trenchant, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), gras (beefy, corpulent, fat, fatty, greasy, handsomely, oily, porky, puffy, pursy, rich, rotund, stout, unctuous, well fed), clisos (argillaceous, gluey, viscous), cleios (adhesive, Cloggy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, pasty, slack-baked, viscid, viscous). (various references)

Russian 

липкий (adhesive, clingy, dauby, gluey, glutinous, goo, gooey, gummy, lentous, ropy, tacky, viscous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lepljiv (adherent, adhesive, agglutinative, clammy, cloggy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, sticking, tacky, treacly). (various references)

Spanish

viscoso (clammy, dank, gooey, heavy, ropy, sizing, sling, slippery, viscid, viscose, viscous), pegajoso (adhesive, boring, clammy, clinging, gluey, gooey, gummy, sticking, tackier, tacky). (various references)

Swedish

klibbig (adhesive, clingy, dauby, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, lentous, limy, tacky), besvärlig (annoying, awkward, bothersome, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, incommodious, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguy, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, warm, worrisome). (various references)

Thai

เหนียว (gluey, glutinous, tacky, tenacious, thick). (various references)

Turkish

zorlu (formidable, intractable, mighty, redoubtable, robust, rugged, stiff, stringent, sweaty, thorny, tough), zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, stiff, strain, tight, trickish, uneasy), yapışkanlı (gluey, self-adhesive, sticking), yapışkan (adherent, adhesive, agglutinate, clamant, clammy, clinging, clingy, cohesive, gluey, glutinous, greasy, gummy, like a limpet, mucilaginous, ropy, sticking, tenacious, viscid, viscous), yapış yapış (gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, tacky, viscid, viscous), tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), rutubetli (clammy, damp, dampish, dank, humid, moist, sour), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), isteksiz (averse, backward, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, indisposed, jaded, languid, loath, loth, reluctant, repugnant, undesirous, undisposed, unwilling, wet), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), gönülsüz (averse, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, loath, reluctant, repugnant, undisposed, unwilling), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), aşırı nemli, ıslak (damp, dank, liquid, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soppy, splashy, tacky, watery, wet). (various references)

Turkmen 

юembeюik. (various references)

Ukrainian

нерішучий (backward, double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, pendulous, shilly shally, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsteadfast, vacillating, vague, wavery, weak), липкий (adhesive, agglutinative, clammy, tacky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhớp nháp khó tính, dính; sánh; bầy nhầy. (various references)

Welsh

gludiog. (various references)

viscosus. (various references)

clam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "sticky": plasticky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sticky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astwick, sicki, Sickie, sicky, stic, sticke, stickh, stickly, stik, stiky, stucky, ticky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stick, ticks.

-2 letters: cist, city, cyst, icky, kist, kits, sick, skit, tick, tics.

-3 letters: cis, ick, icy, its, kit, sic, sit, ski, sky, sty, tic, tis, tsk.

-4 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: kitschy, tricksy.

+2 letters: joystick, staticky, stickily, stockily, yuckiest.

+3 letters: cytokines, joysticks, plasticky, sketchily, yardstick.

+4 letters: cytokinins, dyskinetic, ticklishly, trickishly, yardsticks.

+5 letters: cytokineses, cytokinesis, persnickety, skeptically.