sticky

About 2.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

   Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?

2. adjective Difficult, awkward.

   This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.

3. adjective Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
4. adjective Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
5. adjective Mawkish, sentimental.
6. adjective Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

   a sticky price; sticky wages

7. adjective Persistent.

   We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.

8. adjective Appearing on all virtual desktops.

Similar words

adhesive pasty gluey glutinous viscid viscous steamy wet muggy mucilaginous

Often followed by

and with substance notes tape fingers rice ends mud

Word family

stickier stickiest stickily stickiness stickinesses