What does viscid mean?
Viscid means Having a high viscosity..
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/ˈvɪsɪd/ · adjective
Having a high viscosity..
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.
The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump.
Use viscid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Viscid means Having a high viscosity..
Common synonyms include viscous, mucilaginous, pasty, adhesive.
Possible antonyms include inviscid.
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.
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