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Definition of Sticky

1. Adjective. Having the sticky properties of an adhesive.

2. Adjective. Moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body. "Felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

3. Adjective. Hot or warm and humid. "Sticky weather"

4. Adjective. Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. "In the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

5. Adjective. Covered with an adhesive material.

Definition of Sticky

1. a. Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Definition of Sticky

1. Adjective. Able or likely to stick. ¹

2. Adjective. Potentially difficult to escape from. ¹

3. Adjective. (computing informal of a setting) Persistent. ¹

4. Adjective. (computing of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops. ¹

5. Adjective. (Internet of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. ¹

6. Adjective. (Internet of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving. ¹

7. Adjective. Of weather, hot and wind-less and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating. ¹

8. Noun. A sticky note, such as a post-it note. ¹

9. Noun. (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper. ¹

10. Verb. (context: Internet bulletin boards) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sticky

1. tending to adhere [adj STICKIER, STICKIEST] / a slip of notepaper having an adhesive strip on the back [n STICKIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticky

sticktight flea sticktights sticktion sticktoitive sticktoitiveness stickum stickums stickup stickup man stickups

stickwater stickweed stickweeds stickwork stickworks sticky (current term) sticky-backed plastic sticky-fingered sticky-note sticky-tape

sticky-taped sticky-tapes sticky-taping sticky aster sticky bit sticky bits sticky bun sticky end sticky fingers sticky geranium

Literary usage of Sticky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"These bristles form in the aggregate a chevaux-de-frise, guarding the mouth of the Fig. 281.—sticky glands as a protection to Flowers. l Flower of ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"It is noticeable that sticky stigmas occur most frequently in plants whose ... Many of the sticky stigmas remind one of limed twigs, especially as the ..."

3. The Bookman (1905)
"... thrown herself into the arms of the erst haughty aristocrat) the public is sated and sent home smiling a sticky smile of gratitude. ..."

4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... and the treacle flowing down the street was too much for them. They flocked to the spot to dip their breakfast bread in the sticky ..."

5. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1910)
"sticky fly paper has been used with good success, but in large orchards it becomes expensive. ... sticky ..."

6. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Effects of ivy poisoning; copious peeling off of epithelium, leaving the base moist and sticky ; discharge often decidedly yellow, slimy, sometimes sticky ..."

7. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"sticky ; clammy. Devon. CABLE-HATBAND. A fashion introduced about 1599, being a twisted cord of gold, silver, or silk, worn round the hat. GAULISH. ..."

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