Sticky

/ˈstɪki/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
2. Difficult, awkward.
3. Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
4. Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
5. Mawkish, sentimental.
6. (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
7. (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
8. (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.

Example Sentences

Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?

Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.

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

GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.

Among the books Mum brought me to read when I was a child were The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, as well as their author Frances Hodgson Burnett's smash hit, Little Lord Fauntleroy. I haven't met an adult my age who has read this book but I did so several times. It's a sticky book, guided by that strange Victorian obsession with "the little mother" – the same obsession that Virginia Woolf, a child of Victorian parents, grappled with in her diaries and her fiction. Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else.

Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.

The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.

Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves.

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Word Forms

• stickier
• stickiest
• stickies
• stickying
• stickied

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