Viscid

//ˈvɪsɪd// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a high viscosity.
  2. 2
    Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.

    "They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter."

  3. 3
    Covered with a viscid layer.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
mucilaginousviscousadherentadhesiveamylaceousbulldogged

Example

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"They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter."

Etymology

From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).

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