sticky
adj.
adhesive; covered with something adhesive; warm and humid; difficult, complex (Informal); unpleasant, painful (Informal)
Sticky
sticky
Adjective
1. having the properties of glue
(synonym) gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous
(similar) adhesive
2. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"
(similar) wet
3. hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"
(synonym) muggy, steamy
(similar) wet
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"
(synonym) awkward, embarrassing, unenviable
(similar) difficult, hard
Sticky
(superl.)
Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sticky
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.