Sticky

//ˈstɪki//

Synonyms for "sticky" (172 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (35)

adhesive embarrassing mucilaginous wet adherent amylaceous awkward bad bathed in sweat bathetic beaded with sweat beery boggy bulldogged bulldoggish bulldoggy bullheaded clabbered clammy clingy

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close clotted cloying coagulated curdled damp dampish dank delicate dewy

Adjective(4 words)

adhesive agglutinative claggy close

Adjective(1 words)

awkward

Strong matches (51)

diaphoretic difficult discomforting doughy drenched with sweat fenny formidable gaumy gelatinous glairy gluelike gluey glutenous glutinose glutinous gooey grumous gumbo gumbolike gumlike

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gummous gummy gushing hairy hard heavy humid in a sweat inspissated jelled jellied jellylike knotty laborious marshy maudlin mawkish moist mucky muggy mushy namby pamby namby-pamby

Adjective(6 words)

embarrassing gluey glutinous gummy mucilaginous muggy

Adjective(2 words)

glutinous muggy

Related words (86)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

Synonyms

3 entries

embarrassing mucilaginous steamy

Related terms

1 entries

tacky

coordinate

3 entries

Pinhead Provie Provo

derived

43 entries

Vietnamese fermented sticky rice come to a sticky end fermented sticky rice meet a sticky end stickily stickiness sticky bead argument sticky beak sticky bit sticky bomb sticky bottle sticky bun sticky catchfly sticky currant sticky dog sticky end

Showing 16 of 43 words.

derived from

1 entries

stick

has context

5 entries

au bulletin boards computing internet manufacturing

related to

13 entries

adhesive compelling dessert wine humidity persistent post it note stick sticky note stuck sweat tacky virtual desktop wastepaper

similar

6 entries

adhesive difficult hard wet

Translations

89 translations across 48 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

γλίσχρος adj (able or likely to stick)

Armenian

1 entries

կպչուն adj (able or likely to stick)

Asturian

1 entries

pegañosu adj (able or likely to stick)

Bikol Central

1 entries

mapulot adj (able or likely to stick)

Bulgarian

1 entries

леплив adj (able or likely to stick)

Catalan

2 entries

apegalós adj (able or likely to stick)
enganxós adj (able or likely to stick)

Cebuano

1 entries

pilit adj (able or likely to stick)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

黏 adj (able or likely to stick)

Dutch

2 entries

hachelijk adj (potentially difficult to escape from)
kleverig adj (able or likely to stick)

Esperanto

1 entries

glueca adj (able or likely to stick)

Estonian

1 entries

kleepuv adj (able or likely to stick)

Finnish

3 entries

koukuttava adj (of weather)
tahmea adj (able or likely to stick)
tarttuva adj (able or likely to stick)

French

4 entries

collant adj (able or likely to stick)
collant adj (potentially difficult to escape from)
gluant adj (able or likely to stick)
poisseux adj (able or likely to stick)

Galician

3 entries

apegadizo adj (able or likely to stick)
pegañento adj (able or likely to stick)
pegañoso adj (able or likely to stick)

German

3 entries

heikel adj (potentially difficult to escape from)
klebrig adj (able or likely to stick)
stickig adj (able or likely to stick)

Greek

1 entries

κολλώδης adj (able or likely to stick)

Hungarian

4 entries

bajos adj (potentially difficult to escape from)
fülledt adj (of weather)
izzasztó adj (of weather)
kényes adj (potentially difficult to escape from)

Icelandic

1 entries

klístraður adj (able or likely to stick)

Indonesian

1 entries

lengket adj (able or likely to stick)

Ingrian

1 entries

tarttuva adj (able or likely to stick)

Irish

1 entries

greamaitheach adj (able or likely to stick)

Italian

1 entries

vischioso adj (able or likely to stick)

Japanese

1 entries

ベタベタする adj (able or likely to stick)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

yàpyàpkò adj (able or likely to stick)

Lao

1 entries

ໜຽວ adj (able or likely to stick)

Latin

1 entries

viscidus adj (able or likely to stick)

Latvian

1 entries

lipīgs adj (able or likely to stick)

Marathi

1 entries

चिकट adj (able or likely to stick)

Mongolian

2 entries

бүгчим чийгтэй adj (of weather)
ᠪᠦᠭᠴᠢᠮ ᠴᠢᠭᠢᠭᠲᠡᠢ adj (of weather)

Māori

2 entries

kūpiapia adj (able or likely to stick)
ngingita adj (able or likely to stick)

Norwegian

1 entries

klissete adj (able or likely to stick)

Old English

1 entries

clibbor adj (able or likely to stick)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

یاپشقان adj (able or likely to stick)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

bakrich adj (able or likely to stick)

Polish

1 entries

lepki adj (able or likely to stick)

Portuguese

3 entries

grudento adj (able or likely to stick)
pegajoso adj (able or likely to stick)
fixar verb (to fix a thread at the top of the list)

Romanian

1 entries

lipicios adj (able or likely to stick)

Russian

2 entries

кле́йкий adj (able or likely to stick)
ли́пкий adj (able or likely to stick)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

leanailteach adj (able or likely to stick)

Spanish

4 entries

adherente adj (able or likely to stick)
adherible adj (able or likely to stick)
bochornoso adj (of weather)
escabroso adj (potentially difficult to escape from)

Swedish

4 entries

kladdig adj (able or likely to stick)
kletig adj (able or likely to stick)
klibbig adj (able or likely to stick)
klibbigt adj (of weather)

Thai

1 entries

เหนียว adj (able or likely to stick)

Turkish

1 entries

yapışkan adj (able or likely to stick)

Ukrainian

2 entries

липкий adj (able or likely to stick)
липучий adj (able or likely to stick)

Unami

2 entries

psàkwe adj (able or likely to stick)
psàkwsi adj (able or likely to stick)

Vietnamese

1 entries

dính adj (able or likely to stick)

Volapük

1 entries

kleböfik adj (able or likely to stick)

Yiddish

2 entries

קלעפּיק adj (able or likely to stick)
קלעפּעדיק adj (able or likely to stick)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

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Clerks with sticky fingers won't keep their jobs for long.

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The politician had sticky fingers, and 5% of every contract ended in his pocket.

Source: tatoeba (45938)

This sticky liquid can be substituted for glue.

Source: tatoeba (60721)

The young boy got sticky fingers when he walked into stores.

Source: tatoeba (68202)

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